Power BI vs. Tableau: Clash of the Titans!
These videos show important differences between Power BI and Tableau.
Feb
6, 2018
Jan
8, 2018
Data Quality Issues – a BI Friend or Foe?
I’ve seen many Business Intelligence (BI) projects fail because of data quality issues, but are data quality issues really a BI foe? It’s true that BI shouldn’t be pushed to a broader user base before its data is clean and [...]
Nov
15, 2017
Notifications I Care About
Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning from information overload. Fortunately, technology is evolving and providing better ways to filter out the noise and focus on things I care about. Years ago I would only know my cellphone’s monthly data was over [...]
Nov
7, 2017
Sage X3: Analytics and Self-Service BI
Sage X3 offers a bundled business intelligence package that works well for many companies. But there’s no such a thing as one solution fitting the needs of all organizations, and some companies struggle quite a bit with the wrong fit. [...]
Oct
26, 2017
Total Cost of BI will Surprise You!
When selecting a business intelligence platform (BI), many organizations put too much focus on the cost of the BI software. Recent surveys show that the long-term labor investment ranges from 2 to 35 times higher than the BI software costs [...]
Oct
10, 2017
Telling Your Data Story in Seconds – Part 1: Caveman Brain Science
“Once upon a time...” Everyone loves a great story. I know that I do. Stories capture people’s attention and hold it until the very end. That's why it's important that your dashboards also tell a story that grabs people's attention [...]
Oct
9, 2017
2017 DataSelf SMB Survey
Intro The DataSelf SMB survey findings are summarized in the dashboard above. The findings come from the DataSelf client base (license investment, number of users, and DataSelf labor). Client’s labor and IT infrastructure come from client responses to our inquires. Total [...]
Jun
26, 2017
How a Data Warehouse Maximizes The Salesforce Experience
Bellwether Magazine, Summer 2017 -Many of our customers use Salesforce, and we hear their accounts down the long journey. We hear about their successes first — how Salesforce’s rich features monitor sales like nothing else, and how the vibrant support [...]
Mar
10, 2017
How to use data to drive sales team performance
Not so long ago, individual sales people’s style and “feel” for the prospect provided the intelligence on the progress of a sale. Then, the sale either closed or it didn’t. With advances in technology, quantifiable sales data has become central [...]
Mar
10, 2017
How LendKey created a different kind of loan business – with a cloud ERP engine
How do you escape the chaotic tyranny of spreadsheets? If you’re LendKey Technologies, you challenge three cloud ERP vendors to a functionality bake-off. At the recent Acumatica Summit, LendKey’s Stacey Rohrbaugh told me about their Acumatica project, the results, and [...]