Data Warehousing Decoded, Part 3: The Bottom-Line Benefits of Data Warehousing In part I of this series, we defined data warehousing and how a built-in DFT layer (dimension, fact, and time) allows you to skip the “heavy lifting” of [...]
Data Warehousing Decoded, Part 2: How a Data Warehouse Gets Populated The Missing Link In Part I of this series on data warehousing, we discussed what a data warehouse is, why it’s needed, and how the data within it [...]
Tariffs: Good, Bad, or Indifferent - They Warrant Your Attention Does your company keep an inventory? If so, you may be concerned about the potential impact of tariffs on your business. Regardless of politics – and whether you believe [...]
Supercharge Your Power BI Dashboards with Optimized Data Power BI is powerful — but it’s only half the story. Power BI is one of the most popular data visualization tools in the market, especially for organizations already invested in [...]
Tableau Users: Get the Strategic Insights You’re Missing You love Tableau. Now it’s time to love your data. If you’re a Tableau user, you already know the power of visualization—how trends, outliers, and patterns become clear when your data [...]
The Superpowers that Create Data Heroes The moment was iconic. In the 1989 Batman Movie, Batman (played by Michael Keaton) rescues Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) from the Joker (Jack Nicholson) using one of his utility belt tools. With [...]
Business Reporting: What do companies REALLY want? We recently surveyed both technical and non-technical staff regarding what they wanted to improve the most in their ERP system’s reporting module. The results of the survey were surprising – not [...]
The Lurking Legacy Data Monster, and what to do about it. Analysts calculate that a staggering 65% of all businesses either have adopted a new ERP system within the last 3 years or are considering adopting a new [...]
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 [...]
Article copied from https://msdynamicsworld.com/story/three-factors-keep-your-bi-out-rut How you select your BI system has a lot to do with the benefits you derive from it. My observations in my 17 years of advising mid-sized organizations - plus observations of one other expert in the [...]