Everyone is talking about data, “big data” and analytics. Both the volume and sources of data are proliferating at light speed, particularly with the advent of Cloud infrastructure and the Internet of Things (IoT). Companies, small and large, individuals, and inanimate objects create, save, and utilize data. But is there value in that data and … Continued
What is Cloud BI? If you’ve ever read any of my blog posts, then you probably know that I don’t shy away from the clichéd buzz words/phrases. This time around, I thought we’d tackle two at a time (Cloud & BI). Cloud based Business Intelligence (aka Cloud BI) is the Software as a Service (SaaS) … Continued
What’s included in the 9s Upgrade? In January of this year at the 2015 MicroStrategy World conference in Las Vegas, MicroStrategy announced that their latest Analytics platform, MicroStrategy 9s, was now Generally Available. With this release MicroStrategy has released some significantly improved security enhancements by incorporating their Usher application into the platform’s functionality. What is … Continued
Big Data Infrastructure Definitions for Business Intelligence and Big Data are a lot like a Picasso or Matisse, abstract & defined by the subjective impressions of the viewer. However, making Business Intelligence (or Analytics) happen with raw, unstructured, or streaming data pushes us out of the theoretical/abstract and into the tangible delivery focused realm. What … Continued
The Axian team has had a very exciting month as we’ve headed into Autumn. August 24th was our annual Axian Family Fun Day. For the second year in a row we gathered with our families at Big Al’s for bowling, fantastic food, casino and arcade games, henna tattoos, caricature portraits, and more! Everyone enjoyed themselves … Continued
What is SAP Dashboards? SAP Business Objects Dashboards is the 4.x equivalent to what we’ve formerly called Xcelsius. SAP has made some improvements to this newer version, amongst other things there is now an integrated Query Builder option reducing the dependency on LiveOffice and/or Query as a Web Service. For more information about SAP BusinessObjects … Continued
IBM Cognos has a special name for a Framework Manager model that can absorb changes without affecting the reports already written and published to the Cognos Connection web portal. They are called “Durable Models” and by following a few best practices you can create (or update) FM models that empower your reporting authors to spend … Continued
“Big Data” is everywhere, and attempts at defining it yield as many questions as bad answers. The good news is that it represents a legitimate progression of analytics and computing. Unfortunately, like many new concepts the term/phrase has been misused, mangled, misconstrued, misperceived, and can easily lead to bad practices and a failed project. Many … Continued
MicroStrategy’s Mobile History MicroStrategy is a leader in the Mobile BI space. The first Apple iPad hit the marketplace in April 2010 and MicroStrategy unveiled their Mobile BI capabilities and application to iTunes by September 2010. It gave them a distinct advantage in the newly forming mobile marketplace. Many of the other big vendors struggled to … Continued
