There is a great post by Haroon Choudry on LinkedIn, talking about whether SSRS’s days are numbered. In particular, is the use of PowerBI overshadowing the need for SSRS – and where do the respective data tools live, and where are they headed? These are clearly very different tools, and clearly very different applications. Or are they? It’s interesting that […]
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How Do Systems Learn, When the Questions Aren’t Known?
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’re quickly gaining on having information that we can use to help address some of the issues going on in the world. Almost predictively. You can tell because so many time we’re able to look back on an incident and see the information bits that we known and draw conclusions about whatever is […]
Gearing up your Business for data analytics – Part VI
Gearing up Your Business for Data Analytics – Part VI Having cleared our minds of possible confusions with regard to single view of customer and single view of data in the previous article in this series, let us move on to the study of data quality problems. For instance, if the customer data contains an email id, the same must...
Gearing up your Business for data analytics – Part V
Gearing up Your Business for Data Analytics – Part V In the previous articles we were looked at data requirements and data use at arm’s length. In this article we take a more granular approach to the analysis of data. We look at the quality of data with reference to any requirement questions that may have been raised by the...
Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics–Part IV
Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics–Part IV In the previous articles we were focused on Analytics requirements and data availability for analytics. In this article we delve deeper into the topic and examine whether the available data is of the required quality or not. What is Data Quality? The two most important characteristics that determine the quality of data...
Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics–Part III
Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics — Part III In the Part II of this series we briefly looked at the "Analytical Glossary of Requirements" Matrix. In this article we will try to understand how we construct the "Data availability matrix" for the requirement questions that were articulated in the "Analytical Glossary of Requirements". The term "data availability" is...
Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics–Part II
Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics—Part II In the previous article we touched upon a number of steps in Data Analytics. In this article and the subsequent articles let us dig a little deeper into each step. To recap on the article, the first step in data analytics is creating the “Statement of purpose” or rather a list of...
Attribute Discretization Part I: Introduction and Overview
Attribute Discretization Part I: Introduction and Overview This is the charter article of the SSWUG Elemental SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional 2012 series. – In this and subsequent parts of the article, we will introduce attribute discretization in SQL Server Analysis Services (“SSAS”) – Multidimensional, focusing upon the purpose and benefits of this capability, which, as we shall see, affords...
Understanding Business Intelligence
Understanding Business Intelligence Though Business Intelligence is technology driven, it is more about Business requirements and less about technology. BI Champion/ Sponsor in the organization defines the vision and mission. The leader must have the ability to precisely define the Business intelligence requirements of the organization; the format of the reports; the relationship between the different data elements and version...
Data, Information, and Business Intelligence
Data, Information, and Business Intelligence By Yuli Vasiliev In a BI system, information you need can be derived from different data sources, and by different means. Once it’s been derived, however, it doesn’t matter where it has come from, thus allowing consumers concentrate on the business aspects rather than on the specifics of the internal structure. It’s important to realize,...