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Summary: Poised for rapid growth, Business Intelligence is undergoing some major changes. Driven in part by recent trends and development advances, the BI landscape is shifting dramatically from traditional BI solutions of the past. In this article, you’ll learn more about why BI is changing and where it’s heading.
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What Business Intelligence trends can we expect in 2016?Read More »
Summary: Every day, businesses suffer from the effects of bad or outdated Business Intelligence. These outdated BI tools/practices waste precious time, harm decision-making, and keep these companies from truly taking advantage of their data. Fortunately, bad BI tools/processes display many warning signs. These warning signs will help alert you to a problem, and keep that problem from spiraling out of control. Do you notice any of these warning signs in your business?
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6 warning signs that you need better Business IntelligenceRead More »
Summary: Many businesses adopt Business Intelligence solutions with high expectations–only to be disappointed with the results. While many blame the problem on faulty software, the reality is, a successful BI project relies on a number of important factors. In this article, we explore 5 such factors that commonly hold back BI implementations.
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5 problems that create “Unintelligent” Business IntelligenceRead More »
Summary: As data volumes explode, more and more businesses are realizing that traditional BI practices are less effective. We’re seeing a shift in Business Intelligence–away from an IT-driven process towards a self-service approach. But, while the need for self-service BI is growing, it’s still surrounded by a fair amount of confusion. The concept of “self-service BI” means widely different things to different people. In this article, we explain the basics of self-service, and the pros/cons it delivers to businesses.
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Self-Service Business Intelligence 101: Understanding the BasicsRead More »
Summary: Despite having more options than ever before, businesses face a growing problem: With an ever-increasing number of BI vendors touting their own solutions and terminology, choosing a BI solution is now a confusing process. If you’re struggling with this problem, here’s an on-demand webinar that will help.
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Webinar Replay: Essential elements of Good BI SoftwareRead More »
Summary: Despite the growing need for analytics, most BI projects still fail. Why? In the first two parts of our BI Roadmap Series, we learned a few reasons why BI projects fail, and a few steps you can take to limit your risk. In this article, you’ll take the next step–exploring the key features and capabilities you need in BI software.
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The BI Roadmap (Part III): How to choose BI softwareRead More »
Summary: Businesses are purchasing Business Intelligence software at a record pace. Over a 5-year span, the BI market is expected to increase 10x. But, user adoption of these BI tools remains low. What practical steps can you take to improve BI user adoption, and make the most out of your investment?
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Summary: We’ve all heard the generic BI benefits: BI improves decision making. It puts data at your fingertips. It helps you answer critical business questions. Those are all great, but…how will it help your company? What specific questions can it help you answer? While the answer varies by company, here are 7 common questions that BI can help your business answer.
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Summary: Why do most BI projects fail? Many organizations still ignore the foundational questions and rush through the initial steps. They jump straight into implementation, and then wonder what went wrong. If you want your BI project to succeed, here are 4 initial steps you can’t ignore.
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The BI Roadmap (part II): 4 initial steps you can’t ignoreRead More »
Summary: Despite the growing need for analytics, most BI projects still fail. In this first installment of the BI Roadmap series, you’ll learn why these projects fail, along with a few foundational questions you cannot afford to ignore before starting a BI project.
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The BI Roadmap (part 1): 5 essential questions to askRead More »
Summary: Businesses collect data to improve their insight and decision-making ability. But, it’s having the opposite effect. Rather than helping, data overload actually hurts decision-making. In this article, we’ll cover 5 steps to help you beat ‘Information Fatigue’, and capitalize on the data you have.
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Summary: As businesses create more data than ever before, Business Intelligence is growing. The only problem: Most Business Intelligence projects still fail. In this article, you’ll learn why this happens and key take-aways to help you avoid BI failure.
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7 reasons why Business Intelligence projects failRead More »
Summary: Poised for rapid growth, Business Intelligence is also on the verge of some major changes. Driven in part by recent trends and development advances, the BI of the near future will shift dramatically from traditional BI solutions of the past. In this article, you’ll learn more about why BI is changing and where it’s heading.
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I’m happy to announce that m-Power’s reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities just received a major boost! We just released an update that includes much improved graphing and charting capabilities, and I think you’ll love it.
Now, you’ll still find all of the charting features you’ve come to expect out of m-Power, like chart drill-downs, tooltips, mobile charting capabilities, etc… We didn’t remove any existing features. We did, however, add some new capabilities that will help you create better web applications with m-Power. For instance, m-Power users can now:
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Gartner recently predicted that Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics will remain a top focus for CIOs through 2017. As the benefits of a data-driven decision-making process become more evident, we’ll see most businesses adopt a BI strategy in one form or another over the next few years.
The only problem: Many businesses still don’t quite understand BI. They have a general idea, but the concept remains clouded in misconceptions. These misconceptions keep many businesses from adopting BI, or from taking full advantage of its potential.
Today, I’d like to address these misconceptions, and explain why they’re false. So, what are the biggest areas of confusion surrounding BI? While the list could be much larger, here are 9 of the most common BI misconceptions:
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9 most common Business Intelligence misconceptionsRead More »
** This guest post was written by Estelle Nicholson. Learn more about Estelle in the author bio at the end of this post. **
When starting a BI project, your first step should be taking a quick look at existing initiatives and the overall culture and support for BI. Understand the “4 Ps” of “people, products, power and pilot” before you launch:
Business Intelligence (BI) consistently ranks as one of the top priorities in various CIO and IT surveys. A recent Gartner survey puts BI as the top CIO priority for the last two years running. Forrester comes to the same conclusion.
The fact is, many companies are (or are planning on) adopting a Business Intelligence solution for the very first time. With data growing by leaps and bounds, it’s no surprise that more businesses are looking for ways to capitalize on that data.
The only problem: Most BI implementations fail. It’s no secret. According to various surveys on the topic, anywhere from 60% – 80% of BI projects fail. Yikes.
This paints a grim picture. Implementing BI is the #1 CIO priority, and many businesses will start a BI project in the near future…but most BI projects fail.
Today, let’s explore a few ways to lower those numbers. What must companies who are new to BI do to ensure success? What critical tips should these companies follow? We posed those questions to a few experts in the field, and have compiled their advice (along with some of my own) below. Here are 6 critical tips for BI beginners:
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6 critical guidelines for Business Intelligence beginnersRead More »
** This guest post was written by Estelle Nicholson. Learn more about Estelle in the author bio at the end of this post. **
After an initial burst of enthusiasm, we’ve discovered that BI projects, like many other IT projects, get derailed or circumvented for a host of reasons. People who approach BI projects come from environments outside of traditional IT, so it’s important to understand reasons why your project isn’t getting off the ground (or why it’s crashing) and some of the potential consequences.
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5 Reasons for Non-Adoption or Circumvention of a BI SolutionRead More »
