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Could Business Computing Be Done by Users Without Technical Experience?
Business computing always occurs in enterprises, which plays an important role in enterprises operations, and is mainly handled by the business users. The key business computing is usually characterized with timeliness and weak predication....
What's the Difference between Desktop BI and Solution BI?
All modern Information Technologies which are capable of improving the enterprise competitiveness fall in the scope of BI, such as ERP, CRM, Reporting tools, Data Computing, Statistical Analysis, Data Mining, OLAP, and ETL, etc. They can be divided...
Spreadsheets: Still the King of Business Intelligence Tools
"BI is not an upgrade to the spreadsheet!" "Stop trying to use the spreadsheet as a BI tool!" BI vendors are frequently heard to make such comments. People may thus assume that the spreadsheet is on the decline, and feel embarrassed by their...
SQL Visualization in the Spreadsheet
SQL is a database query and programming language for retrieving, updating, and managing the data from relational database. SQL was certified to meet ANSI in 1986, and became an international standard in 1987. Nowadays, SQL becomes a basic...
Seven Drawbacks of Traditional OLAP
In 1993, E.F. Codd, the acknowledged founder of relational databases, introduced the term Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). OLAP is intended for the non-data processing professionals like the business expert, and is expected to be intuitive,...
OLAP Cask Principle Reveals the Future for OLAP Tools Manufacturer
This post is originally posted on http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/data-analytics/olap-cask-principle-reveals-the-future-for-olap-tools-manufacturer-54044.Cask principle illustrates this idea: no matter how high the cask is, it is the shortest board of...
Simple Inter-row Computation: esProc Keeps It Simple!
The interrow computation is quite common, such as the aggregate, comparison with same period of any previous year, and link relative ratio in business statistics and analytics. Both R language and esProc provide a pretty good interrow computation...
Vector Computing, Who Is More Powerful, R Language or esProc?
Do you find Vector Computing tiresome while using statistical computing tools? Here we go for a Vector Computing Comparison: R Language vs. esProc. To me, one of the most attractive features of R language and esProc is that their codes are both...
Interactive Analysis Tools Comparison: R Language, Matlab, esProc, SAS, SPSS, Excel, and SQL
The interactive analysis is a circular analytics procedure comprising assumption, verification, and calibration by the analyst to achieve the fuzzy computation goal. For specifics and details, please refer to another article I composed: Interactive...
Interactive Analytics and OLAP - Part III
In the part II of interactive analytics and OLAP, we left a question: Can the narrowed OLAP be used to complete the computation process as follows...
Interactive Analytics and OLAP - Part II
After the first stage of real application process of the OLAP in interactive analytics and OLAP - Part I, we will start OLAP ...
Interactive Analytics and OLAP - Part I
Many BI practitioners have heard about OLAP which is an important constituent part of business intelligence. And today we will talk about what OLAP is indeed for actual need? What is real OLAP? What is instant OLAP for instant data analytics?...
