The SMB Analytics Wire – Apr 2018
April 2018 Telling Your Data Story In Seconds Last week we added two more articles to our blog series, "Telling Your Data Story In Seconds." If you want to explore the science and art behind [...]
Apr 25, 2018
Apr 13, 2018
DataSelf Corp. Releases Cloud-Based Analytics Solution
DataSelf Corp, leading provider of analytics and business intelligence (BI) solutions for SMBs, releases DataSelf Cloud Analytics. DataSelf Corporation, the leading provider of analytics and business intelligence (BI) solutions for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB’s), today announced the release of [...]
Mar 28, 2018
Telling Your Data Story in Seconds, part 4: Mad Scientist Experiments for Better Dashboards
Thomas Edison didn’t create the lightbulb in a single try. He experimented and failed 1,000 times before creating a working light bulb! The same is true with building better dashboards. Your first attempt may look okay, but by experimenting often [...]
Mar 20, 2018
Telling Your Data Story in Seconds part 3: Chart Types and Formatting, Oh My!
Einstein once said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” This is as true for building data visualizations as it is for anything else! You need to explain your data as simply [...]
Feb 6, 2018
Power BI vs. Tableau: Clash of the Titans!
These videos show important differences between Power BI and Tableau.
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 [...]