{"id":8047,"date":"2014-06-13T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:20:15","slug":"weekly-recap-25-questions-bi-can-answer-the-multi-screened-era-redefining-the-pc-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/weekly-recap-25-questions-bi-can-answer-the-multi-screened-era-redefining-the-pc-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Recap: 25 questions BI can answer, the multi-screened era redefining the PC, 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 the biggest business benefit to cloud computing, how mobile is redefining the PC, questions that Business Intelligence can answer for your business, and more.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20140610\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140613_25QuestsionsBI_25Questiosn']); \" href=\"http:\/\/customerthink.com\/25-questions-you-didnt-know-business-intelligence-could-answer-for-your-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">25 questions you didn\u2019t know business intelligence could answer for your business<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'BI Trends']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/7-big-business-intelligence-trends-of-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">In 2014, BI is all about making data more accessible to business users<\/span><\/a>: mobile BI, on-demand access to business intelligence, ease of use, and flexible integration to connect or consume data from a variety of sources. But all this focus on what you can do sometimes leaves you wondering what you should do with business data.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">How the cloud enables innovation<\/span><br \/>\nCloud may help cut costs, but perhaps its biggest benefit is that it frees IT operations to pursue new projects and initiatives. Rather than maintaining on-premise hardware, IT departments can focus on mission critical tasks. <\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140613_25QuestsionsBI_MultiScreenEra']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/infrastructure\/pc-and-servers\/multi-screen-era-redefines-business-pc\/d\/d-id\/1269580?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Multi-screen era redefines business PC<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nWhile some think that the rise of mobile will kill the PC, something entirely different is happening. Rather, the paradigm has shifted from a single-device user to multiple-device user &#8212; from one device to a minimum of three. Mobile isn\u2019t killing the PC&#8211;it\u2019s supplementing it. It\u2019s created a <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Mobile']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/solutions\/mobile.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">multi-screened world<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140613_25QuestsionsBI_ShadowIT']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/mobile\/mobile-business\/in-praise-of-shadow-it\/a\/d-id\/1269526?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">In praise of Shadow IT<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAccording to new research, 80% of those employed by enterprises larger than 1,000 people circumvent IT to use cloud-based tools. What\u2019s the answer? What should businesses do about \u201c<a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Shadow IT']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/7-reasons-why-end-users-bypass-the-it-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">Shadow IT<\/span><\/a>?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn the biggest business benefit to cloud computing, how mobile is redefining the PC, questions that Business Intelligence can answer for your business, 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: 25 questions BI can answer, the multi-screened era redefining the PC, and more... - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Summary: In this week's article roundup, we learn the biggest business benefit to cloud computing, how mobile is redefining the PC, questions that Business Inte"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047","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=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13968,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/13968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}