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 [...]
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 [...]
From Legacy ERP to Sage X3: A Smarter Path That Protects Your Historical Data Upgrading from a legacy ERP system to Sage X3 is a bold step toward digital transformation—but it doesn’t have to mean leaving your data (and hard-won [...]
What Makes a 'Data Hero'? ‘Superheroes’ are figures like Superman or Spiderman who possess superior crime fighting abilities which they use to beat up the bad guys and benefit society around them. Following that line of thinking, a “Data [...]
Reporting for Management: BI-based Analytics It’s a typical complaint voiced by managers: “Why can’t I get the insight I need from my ERP reports?” To answer this question, you need to understand how standard ERP reporting works, and how [...]
DataSelf BI-based Reporting: Benefits . . . and BeneficiariesWhen evaluating the merits of BI-based Reporting™ software, it’s typical to consider the following questions:Why do you need it? (What business pains are you trying to address?)What does the software do?How does [...]
The Truth Hider: Uncovering Reporting's Single Version of the Truth If you look back upon the most notable ‘arch-villains’ who battled Batman, the one that seems most appropriate to criminally-bad reporting is The Riddler. Renamed – only slightly – [...]
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 [...]
DataSelf is Looking for more Data Geeks! (...We are hiring!) We are excited to announce that DataSelf is hiring! We are looking for Data Geeks to join our team in the following positions: Azure Synapse Analytics - Remote [...]
