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Jul 11
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Warehousing Scrum – practical application thereof

In my last blog I left off with a discussion around this thing called “The Scrum”. So, what in fact is this thing? The scrum For those of you who have ever watched a game of rugby, you will appreciate this statement – a scrum in rugby is a dark... read more →
  • 11/07/2016
  • Philip du Plessis
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  • Data Warehousing
Jul 01
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Agile for Warehousing. My story.

I have been doing data warehousing for as long as I can remember. In many forms – sometimes “operational”, sometimes “analytical”, sometimes Kimball, sometimes Inmon. In most cases a hybrid. I pride myself on being technology agnostic and really not concerning myself too much with all the bells and whistles... read more →
  • 01/07/2016
  • Philip du Plessis
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  • Data Warehousing
Jun 09
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Dashboards and data visualisations

Significant amounts of dense or confusing quantitative information can be a challenge to understand, even for those who are experienced in reading complex data. When intricate data sets are more streamlined and visual, the information is far more easily absorbed and understood. The rules of design This is where design comes... read more →
  • 09/06/2016
  • Philip Mair
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  • Dashboards & Visualisation
May 21
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Human cognition and data visualisations

Not everyone learns the same way; some of us are undoubtedly more visual learners, others more aural, and some are more textual. Despite the differences in various ways we all prefer to learn, there is evidence to suggest that a well-designed visualisation can be the most effective and fastest way to absorb... read more →
  • 21/05/2016
  • Philip Mair
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  • Dashboards & Visualisation
Apr 11
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KPIs: Is your organisation using them correctly?

There's little argument that every organisation, from the smallest of small businesses to the largest multinational corporation, should be regularly setting goals and tracking progress towards achieving them. To do so involves working out the values by which you can measure progression - commonly known as key progress indicators (KPIs).... read more →
  • 11/04/2016
  • Hamish Blyth
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  • Business Intelligence, Dashboards & Visualisation
Mar 22
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Essential tips for dashboard design

When it comes to tracking the performance of your business and employees, it's not enough to simply calculate a series of figures and distribute them to the relevant people. Modern business leaders understand the value of effective dashboard design, and how much of a difference it can make for conveying... read more →
  • 22/03/2016
  • Philip Mair
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  • Dashboards & Visualisation
Feb 25
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The benefits of active reports

In the modern world, business intelligence is about more than making your organisation work smarter - it's about getting the right information to the right people, who can then analyse it and make crucial, timely decisions. What so many companies are missing, however, are the tools to distribute that data... read more →
  • 25/02/2016
  • Philip Mair
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  • Business Intelligence, Dashboards & Visualisation
Dec 15
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The increasing role of metadata to support governance

Data governance is essential in enabling business processes supported by analytics to happen. Simply, once a company streamlines its information gathering efforts with end goals in mind, it becomes much easier to establish a path to achieving them. Rather than adopt a scatter-gun approach, what areas of data governance are... read more →
  • 15/12/2015
  • Paul Gillespie
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  • Business Intelligence
Dec 08
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How can data lakes support analytics efforts?

Today's businesses store their data in many different forms. However, due to the sheer amount of information that even modestly sized enterprises collect, leveraging it all at once just isn't viable. So, what's the solution? Well, that's where data lakes come in. TechTarget explained that in essence, a data lake is... read more →
  • 08/12/2015
  • Paul Gillespie
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  • Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing
Sep 23
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Above and beyond: Should strategy and budgeting be more closely linked?

There are many concepts and business practices that are set in their ways. Any radical changes are often met with murmurs of discontent from the C-suite, with the old adage of 'if it isn't broken, don't fix it' used by many decision makers to justify a lack of forward-thinking. However,... read more →
  • 23/09/2015
  • Hamish Blyth
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  • Budgeting & Forecasting, Business Intelligence
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