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 [...]
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 [...]
These videos show important differences between Power BI and Tableau.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]