{"id":7860,"date":"2014-04-18T13:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2014-04-21T15:08:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T20:08:49","slug":"weekly-recap-3-cloud-computing-trends-you-didnt-see-coming-the-bi-battle-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/weekly-recap-3-cloud-computing-trends-you-didnt-see-coming-the-bi-battle-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly recap: 3 cloud computing trends you didn&#8217;t see coming, the BI battle, and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Education\" alt=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn 5 questions to ask before creating a report or dashboard, why Business Intelligence isn&#8217;t just for large companies, and more. <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20140401\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140418_CloudComputingTrendsYouDidntSeeComing_SMBsBI']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.business2community.com\/business-intelligence\/6-reasons-smbs-use-business-intelligence-solutions-0847185#!EtGqm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">6 reasons why SMBs should use BI solutions<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSome small-to-medium sized businesses think that <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'PDF Download', 'Business Intelligence', 'Blog']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/research\/BIPaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">BI solutions<\/span><\/a> are reserved for the larger companies. As explained in this article, that\u2019s simply not the case. <\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140418_CloudComputingTrendsYouDidntSeeComing_DataViz']); \" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/2014\/04\/the-quick-and-dirty-on-data-visualization\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">The quick and dirty on data visualization<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nYour flashy graphs and charts may be worthless if not used in the right context. Before creating a report, BI application, or <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Dashboard']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/what-is-a-user-defined-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">dashboard<\/span><\/a>, ask yourself the 5 questions listed in this article.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140418_CloudComputingTrendsYouDidntSeeComing_CloudComputingTrends']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/sap\/2014\/04\/11\/3-cloud-computing-trends-you-didnt-see-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">3 cloud computing trends you didn\u2019t see coming<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBusinesses view the cloud differently today than in the past. Rather than <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Cloud']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/8-questions-to-ask-before-developing-applications-on-the-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">moving to the cloud<\/span><\/a> for cost reasons, we\u2019re seeing businesses change their approach to cloud computing in a few strategic ways.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140418_CloudComputingTrendsYouDidntSeeComing_BIBattle']); \" href=\"http:\/\/searchcio.techtarget.com\/news\/2240218803\/As-old-BI-and-new-BI-clash-CIOs-should-prepare-for-battle\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">CIOs: Prepare for the BI battle<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBusiness Intelligence adoption is on the brink of explosive growth, as well as explosive change. We\u2019re heading for a battle between \u201cold BI\u201d and \u201cnew BI\u201d&#8211;one that many IT leaders aren\u2019t fully prepared to handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn 5 questions to ask before creating a report or dashboard, why Business Intelligence isn&#8217;t just for large companies, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Weekly recap: 3 cloud computing trends you didn't see coming, the BI battle, and more... - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Summary: In this week's article roundup, we learn 5 questions to ask before creating a report or dashboard, why Business Intelligence isn't just for large compa"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7876,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions\/7876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}