Data Talks is Exago's podcast on business intelligence, analytics, and application software. This month, “godfather of data literacy” Jordan Morrow unpacks the 12-step data-informed decision making process outlined in his new book, Be Data Literate: The Data Literacy Skills Everyone Needs to Succeed. “Data-driven culture” is one of the hottest buzzwords of the decade, but Morrow says most organizations are nowhere near achieving it ..read more

Data Talks is Exago's podcast on business intelligence, analytics, and application software. This month, we’re learning all about unified data and analytics platforms (UDAPs) with Eckerson analyst Joe Hilleary. Eckerson Group coined the term in a paper it published in 2020, and it describes a trend taking place in the BI software space. Joe takes us on a deep dive into UDAPs, covering everything from what they are to who they benefit and why ..read more

Data Talks is Exago's podcast on business intelligence, analytics, and application software. This month, we’re talking about BI success factors with BI and Data Management expert Jorge García. Jorge is a Principal Analyst of BI and Data Management at Technology Evaluation Centers in Québec, but he also has experience as a BI practitioner. This has given him a dual perspective on business intelligence success factors and how organizations might rethink these goals ..read more

Data Talks is Exago's podcast on business intelligence, analytics, and application software. This month, we’re joined by Aaron Fuller, Director of Data and Business Intelligence at CodeGreen Solutions, who’s going to tell us how small and midsize businesses can manage their data quality, today, with the tools already available to them. He explains where to start, who on your team to endow with data management responsibilities, and what to do with issues you uncover ..read more

Data Talks is Exago's podcast on business intelligence, analytics, and application software. This month, we are joined by our very own Senior Software Architect, Ryan Bazinet, for a deep dive on serverless architectures. What are they, how do they differ from traditional horizontal scaling models, and what is their potential impact on SaaS? We explore all this and more with Exago’s resident architecture wonk ..read more

This month, Business Application Research Center Founder and CEO Carsten Bange talks with us about emerging trends in business intelligence, ranging from ten-year cycles to a new emphasis on operational BI and price performance ratio. Look no further than this episode for a high-level understanding of the BI industry as it stands in 2020 ..read more

This month on the podcast, we learn all about corporate data literacy with analytics experts Caitlin Johnson and David Langer. In addition to their day jobs at Schedulicity, David and Caitlin teach data literacy courses with TDWI, focusing on the few concepts business professionals need to do 80% of their analytics. The conversation explores the state of corporate data literacy today, how it impacts BI usage, and what enterprises need to do to become more data-driven ..read more

This month, Anticimex Data Integrity Analyst Forrest Gordon offers insight into training self-service BI users of various abilities and backgrounds. As an expert in pest management solution PestPac and its whitelabel implementation of Exago BI, Gordon is responsible for training users at six of Anticimex’s subsidiary companies — and no two use PestPac the same way. In this episode, we learn how Forrest navigates these and other instructional challenges ..read more

This month, journalist and professor Alberto Cairo joins us for a discussion on data democratization, data literacy, and the role charts play in the art of persuasion. Cairo has authored several books on data visualization, including The Functional Art (2012), The Truthful Art (2016), and just this past year How Charts Lie (2019 ..read more

This month, we’re joined by Scott Berinato, Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review and author of both Good Charts (2016) and The Good Charts Workbook (2019). We broaden our understanding of data visualization to include other types of information design, learn best practices for making better charts, and discuss what our visualization tools might do to facilitate good design ..read more