Paul Blogs on BI

JULY 8, 2024

These applications cover all aspects of the organization – finance, operations and clinical. They are also pushed into PowerBI semantic models for Bi dashboards using InfoBurst PowerBI. The source and target data was on a SQL Server database in their Google Cloud and their response times on the phone were near instant.

Dashboards 52

Dashboards Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Data-driven 52

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This integration simplifies the authentication and authorization process for Amazon Redshift users using Query Editor V2 or Amazon Quicksight , making it easier for them to securely access your data warehouse. Note: Your organization’s IdC instance must be in the same region as the Amazon Redshift data warehouse you’re connecting to.

Data Warehouse 86

Data Warehouse Finance Sales Management 86

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that you can use to analyze your data at scale. This enables you to integrate web-based applications to access data from Amazon Redshift using an API to run SQL statements. Building a serverless data processing workflow.

Data Warehouse 83

Data Warehouse Recreation/Entertainment Cost-Benefit Data-driven 83

Jet Global

JANUARY 5, 2021

Most customers running Microsoft Dynamics AX are acutely aware that at some point in the future, they will need to make the leap to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management (D365 F&SCM). As we have noted elsewhere , Power BI is still a relatively new platform, and it is heavily focused on dashboard analytics.

Reporting 98

Reporting Data Warehouse Finance Cost-Benefit 98

Jet Global

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In the case of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management (D365 F&SCM) , for example, Microsoft has implemented an intermediary layer of “data entities” that programmers can use to gain access to the ERP data. Power BI was designed to be a dashboard visualization tool. Power BI Without the Risk.

Finance 52

Finance Risk Reporting Software 52

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 5, 2024

These business units have varying landscapes, where a data lake is managed by Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and analytics workloads are run on Amazon Redshift , a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data.

Data Lake 82

Data Lake Finance Sales Management 82

Cloudera

OCTOBER 18, 2022

However, we quickly found that our needs were more complex than the capabilities provided by the SaaS vendor and we decided to turn the power of CDP Data Warehouse onto solving our own cloud spend problem. This brings data directly into the Data Warehouse , which is stored as Parquet into Hive/Impala tables on HDFS.

IT 87

IT Data Warehouse Dashboards Visualization 87

DataKitchen

AUGUST 27, 2021

Imagine a data team of one or two dozen data professionals serving the analytics needs of hundreds of sales and marketing team members. They submit an endless list of requests for new data sets, dashboards, segmentations, cached data sets and nearly anything else they think will help them meet business goals.

Analytics 246

Analytics Sales Testing Cost-Benefit 246

AWS Big Data

MAY 17, 2023

During that same time, AWS has been focused on helping customers manage their ever-growing volumes of data with tools like Amazon Redshift , the first fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse. One group performed extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations to take raw data and make it available for analysis.

Data Warehouse 118

Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Sales Data-driven 118

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It’s data that is the key to moving from generic applications to generative AI applications that create real value for your customers and your business. With Amazon Bedrock , you can privately customize FMs for your specific use case using a small set of your own labeled data through a visual interface without writing any code.

Data Warehouse 116

Data Warehouse Data Lake Dashboards Data Integration 116

Jet Global

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For organizations considering a move to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management (D365 F&SCM), or for those in the early stages of an implementation project, defining a clear strategy for curating data is a key to developing a comprehensive approach to reporting and analytics. What Are Data Entities?

Data Warehouse 90

Data Warehouse OLAP Reporting Finance 90

datapine

JULY 1, 2020

Ad hoc reporting, also known as one-time ad hoc reports, helps its users to answer critical business questions immediately by creating an autonomous report, without the need to wait for standard analysis with the help of real-time data and dynamic dashboards. Easy to use: .

Reporting 260

Reporting Dashboards Cost-Benefit Visualization 260

Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Consultants and developers familiar with the AX data model could query the database using any number of different tools, including a myriad of different report writers. Data Entities. For more sophisticated multidimensional reporting functions, however, a more advanced approach to staging data is required. Data Lakes.

Data Lake 88

Data Lake OLAP Data Warehouse Unstructured Data 88

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Sun King designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar home energy products for people currently living without reliable energy access. Sun King is driven by data for analyzing areas of growth across thousands of miles using a dashboards that are powered by Amazon Redshift.

Data Analytics 69

Data Analytics Analytics Data Warehouse Data-driven 69

Jet Global

APRIL 20, 2020

Several decades ago, most finance professionals were thinking about their internal systems as “accounting software.” Finance leaders that were quick to recognize the new paradigm got a head start, using the new technology to make their organizations more efficient and profitable. What Is Financial Intelligence?

Business Intelligence 78

Business Intelligence Finance Data Warehouse OLAP 78

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s then up to the CIO to sound less like a technical guru and more like the finance, marketing, and payroll people, making it clear that every activity takes place on the IT infrastructure. Data is one of the most important levers the CIO can use to have an effective dialogue with the CEO. Software is invisible.

Strategy 134

Strategy Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Forecasting 134

datapine

MAY 21, 2019

In addition to increasing the price of deployment, setting up these data warehouses and processors also impacted expensive IT labor resources. Check out this investor relations dashboard example below, part of our management dashboard series: **click to enlarge**. They also need these tools to generate a true ROI.

Business Intelligence 183

Business Intelligence Cost-Benefit Dashboards ROI 183

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The data lake implemented by Ruparupa uses Amazon S3 as the storage platform, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) as the ingestion tool, AWS Glue as the ETL (extract, transform, and load) tool, and QuickSight for analytic dashboards. The audience of these few reports was limited—a maximum of 20 people from management.

Data Lake 52

Data Lake Dashboards Cost-Benefit Data Warehouse 52

FineReport

JULY 16, 2021

When we talk about business intelligence system, it normally includes the following components: data warehouse BI software Users with appropriate analytical. Data analysis and processing can be carried out while ensuring the correctness of data. Data Warehouse. Data Analysis. INTERFACE OF BI SYSTEM.

Business Intelligence 98

Business Intelligence Informatics Data Warehouse Data mining 98

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, you might want to know the usage cost in Amazon EMR for the finance business unit. After you have allocated costs to individual Spark jobs, this data can help you make informed decisions to optimize your costs. You can use the SQL query to create a report dashboard to plot multiple charts for the insights.

Metrics 81

Metrics Dashboards Data Lake Optimization 81

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Positive curation means adding items from certain domains, such as finance, legal and regulatory, cybersecurity, and sustainability, that are important for enterprise users. It also lets you choose the right engine for the right workload at the right cost, potentially reducing your data warehouse costs by optimizing workloads.

Risk 70

Risk Modeling Management Metadata 70

Jet Global

JULY 29, 2020

It’s also important to consider your business objectives, both inside and outside finance. Finally, talk to stakeholders in finance, IT, and the C-suite about what the ideal reporting process looks like to both producers and consumers. Interactive dashboards that provide reports with a rich variety of visualization tools.

Reporting 98

Reporting Cost-Benefit Consulting Finance 98

Jet Global

JANUARY 15, 2020

In our technology-driven world, financial intelligence is the organizational concept that fuels how best-in-class finance teams operate. It’s data analysis instead of just collection and reporting. What Makes Finance Different. Financial intelligence starts by recognizing something fundamental about financial data.

IT 59

IT Finance Reporting Data-driven 59

Sisense

JUNE 26, 2019

Once you get connected, there are a few ways you can access and work with your data: Query Data Live. More than likely, you are running and maintaining a high-performance data warehouse, such as Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, or Google BigQuery. Enterprise companies usually have legacy systems that contain important data.

Enterprise 75

Enterprise Data Warehouse Dashboards Modeling 75

Jet Global

JULY 30, 2021

Whether it is a sales performance dashboard, a snapshot of A/R collections, a trends analysis dashboard, a marketing performance app, or a variance-to-Year 12-month view report, EPM reporting can be a powerful tool in helping your organization meet its objectives. Management Information Dashboard.

Reporting 52

Reporting Metrics Dashboards Sales 52

datapine

MARCH 31, 2022

For instance, you will learn valuable communication and problem-solving skills, as well as business and data management. Added to this, if you work as a data analyst you can learn about finances, marketing, IT, human resources, and any other department that you work with. Business Intelligence Job Roles.

Business Intelligence 239

Business Intelligence Statistics Visualization Data-driven 239

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 28, 2023

Data analytics in the publishing industry With such a widespread global operation, Macmillan Publishers has a long history of investing in technology that can source deep analytical information about sales, inventory and transportation of their titles in the market.

Publishing 50

Publishing Analytics Business Intelligence Operational Reporting 50

Sisense

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Applications of all kinds now face increasing pressure to offer analytics and stats to users on both sides of the fence: Subscribers and members want to see their personal analytics dashboards ; business teams want to see data on those members as well as app performance. Charts show peak message levels as well as who sends how many.

Analytics 98

Analytics Dashboards Metrics Data-driven 98

Jedox

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Historical data compatibility with the current environment (>20 years data). The goal in addressing these pain points is to empower your stakeholders (both within Finance/FP&A and your business partners) to be able to deliver: Consistent reporting and dashboards. Limited internal resources. Self-service reporting.

Data Analytics 69

Data Analytics Analytics Unstructured Data Data mining 69

datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With quality data at their disposal, organizations can form data warehouses for the purposes of examining trends and establishing future-facing strategies. Industry-wide, the positive ROI on quality data is well understood. Business/Data Analyst: The business analyst is all about the “meat and potatoes” of the business.

Data Quality 241

Data Quality Metrics Data-driven Management 241

Jet Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Your month end numbers aren’t adding up and your finance team is forced to manually sift through spreadsheet after spreadsheet looking for inaccuracies and h uman errors . Your resources are spread thin with the additional calculations and system workarounds put in place trying to understand the data your system is delivering .

Data Warehouse 69

Data Warehouse Data Quality Business Intelligence Data Governance 69

Jet Global

MAY 1, 2020

The mechanical solution is to build a data warehouse. This will be the place where everybody has come together and agreed upon the data that you are going to use to manage your business, and how that data is going to be combined with which methods you’re going to use to calculate things like gross profit and net income.

Data Warehouse 64

Data Warehouse Data Quality Risk Reporting 64

datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

If nothing can be changed, there is no point of analyzing data. But if you find a development opportunity, and see that your business performance can be significantly improved, then a KPI dashboard software could be a smart investment to monitor your key performance indicators and provide a transparent overview of your company’s data.

IT 317

IT Statistics KPI Data-driven 317

Jet Global

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Power BI provides users with some very nice dashboarding and reporting capabilities. The company is pointing customers to several other options, including “BYOD” (which stands for “bring your own database”) and Microsoft Azure data lakes. This leads to the second option, which is a data warehouse.

Modeling 52

Modeling OLAP Reporting Sales 52

Jet Global

MAY 27, 2021

This includes OBIEE, a strategic BI tool that provides a web platform with attractive dashboards suitable for C-level needs. While it has many advantages, it’s not built to be a transactional reporting tool for day-to-day ad hoc analysis or easy drilling into data details. – Paul Slowey, Finance Systems Accountant.

Reporting 52

Reporting Cost-Benefit Dashboards Finance 52

Jet Global

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The term “ business intelligence ” (BI) has been in common use for several decades now, referring initially to the OLAP systems that drew largely upon pre-processed information stored in data warehouses. Discover Meaning Amid All That Data. They are beginning to amass the data assets that will serve them for years to come.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence OLAP Sales Data Warehouse 52

Jet Global

MARCH 25, 2020

According to a recent survey by the Hackett Group, 90 percent of finance respondents rated improving enterprise data and analytics capabilities as highly important or even critical. But how can finance departments provide this kind of information at speed? Financial reporting on JD Edwards data covers a lot of ground.

Reporting 45

Reporting Finance Sales Visualization 45