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Survey Shows Business Intelligence Wants and Struggles of SMBs

October 18, 2011 by David Abramson
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"While dashboards and reporting continue to be critical elements driving adoption of business intelligence (BI) among small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), most SMBs are unable to access all of the data they need, and don’t have an easy way to understand it in order to make better business decisions, according to a recent BI survey by LogiXML. " [read more]

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Personalization: The Underappreciated Aspect of Self-Service Business Intelligence

September 30, 2011 by David Abramson
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Perhaps the most critical, yet underappreciated aspect of self-service BI is personalization. In the context of BI, personalization is about giving the end user - the consumer of the data output - the ability to define or build the type of experiences they want, and to save them as personalized views. [read more]

OLAP is Dead (Long Live Analytics)

November 27, 2009 by Timo Elliott
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The term OLAP or Online Analytic Processing was coined in 1993 by relational database technology pioneer Ted Codd (my claim to fame: we went to the same high school, Poole Grammar). The term was chosen to contrast with OLTP or online transaction processing, and was prompted by some clever marketing folks at Essbase, who wanted to... [read more]