A recent Ernst and Young report found that 81% of organizations embrace the notion that data should be at the heart of all decision making. Yet, in many organization the decision-making process is stalled because data is still kept in silos. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story ..read more

As a leading business intelligence tool, Power BI offers business users power and flexibility in dealing with data. The Microsoft tool provides everything from Excel integration to enterprise reporting and an increasing number of AI features that simplify getting deeper insights. In fact, the latest Forrester Wave report on augmented BI goes as far as to say “it is hard not to consider Power BI as your top choice for an enterprise BI platform.” To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story ..read more

The Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) is a credential for business analysts offered by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). IIBA is a nonprofit professional association founded in 2003 to promote the field of business analysis. The organization describes CBAP as a credential that “recognizes seasoned BA professionals who have over five years of practical business analysis work experience.” In other words, CBAP is an advanced credential that requires extensive experience and training. You will also need to pass the CBAP exam, as is the case with most credential ..read more

If you’re interested in data and how it relates to business processes, a career as a business analyst (BA) might be for you. Business analysis will enable you to spend your days burrowing into numbers and emerging with nuggets of insight. You will need to really know your data to succeed. But as experienced business analysts will tell you, there’s much more to it than that. The ability to make data come alive for human beings — particularly those in management — is crucial. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story ..read more

Business intelligence is not an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp. It’s not dead. And it’s not being superseded by artificial intelligence. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story ..read more

Data visualization platform Tableau is one of the most widely used tools in the rapidly growing business intelligence (BI) space and individuals with skills in Tableau are in high demand. Market intelligence and advisory firm Mordor Intelligence forecasts the global data visualization market to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 9.69% between 2021 and 2026 as businesses seek to become more analytically driven. Tableau is consistently listed as a leader in the BI industry for its data visualization platform, which helps business users access, prepare, and present data insights. To read th ..read more

Productivity SaaS provider Zoho has entered the business intelligence (BI) platform market, announcing an AI-powered, self-service platform that combines the new Zoho DataPrep application with an enhanced version of Zoho Analytics. The Chennai, India-based multinational is betting that it can win over business users with a combination of features focused on ease-of-use, support for data preparation, and the ability to blend internal data with outside data sources. The new platform is extensible to more than 250 data sources. [ Deliver deep insights with the 7 keys to a successful business inte ..read more

Power BI is Microsoft’s interactive data visualization and analytics tool for business intelligence (BI). With Power BI, you can pull in data from a wide range of systems in the cloud and on premises and create dashboards that track the metrics you care about the most. You can even drill down into your data and (literally) ask questions about it. Power BI’s rich reports or dashboards can be embedded in reporting portals you already use. And while its dashboards, reports, and visualizations can go far beyond bar and pie charts, you don’t need to be a designer to create them. You can also use Po ..read more

As companies re-evaluate current IT infrastructures and processes with the goal of creating more efficient, resilient, and intuitive enterprise systems, one thing has become very clear: traditional data warehousing architectures that separate data storage from usage are pretty much obsolete.   To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story ..read more

Some things don't change, even during a pandemic. Consistent with previous years, in CIO’s 2021 State of the CIO survey, a plurality of the 1,062 IT leaders surveyed chose “data/business analytics” as the No.1 tech initiative expected to drive IT investment. Unfortunately, analytics initiatives seldom do nearly as well when it comes to stakeholder satisfaction. Last year, CIO contributor Mary K. Pratt offered an excellent analysis of why data analytics initiatives still fail, including poor-quality or siloed data, vague rather than targeted business objectives, and clunky one-size-fits-al ..read more