Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 11, 2018

These are some quick answers to some common questions I get about Business Intelligence, Big Data, and Analytics: Big Data. The term has been around for quite some time. Why is it still important for innovative businesses? It’s clear that data is one of the most important assets of the future. Organizations want to optimize their end-to-end customer experience, to improve productivity, and to engage the workforce in new ways.

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ElegantJ BI

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Data Visualization Tools that are Smarter Can Make Users Smarter! Visual Analytics tools enable users to identify relationships, patterns, trends and opportunities and to explore detailed data with simple drill down and drill through capabilities and make sense of data from all sources, with a guided approach that allows users to identify patterns and trends, and quickly complete analysis with clear results.

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Earlier this week, I blogged about the automatic cleanup process that purges old data from the SSIS catalog logging tables. This nightly process removes data for operations that are older than 365 days. While this is useful, many SSIS admins have complained that this process is very slow and contentious on large or busy SSISDB databases. In this post, I’ll.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 10, 2018

For starters, let me just say there’s no problem with story points. Story points are a way of expressing the relative sizes of stories. They can be helpful for short-term planning of software development activities. Unfortunately, sometimes people get hung up on the numbers, and they lose track of the substance. People can get into the habit of repeating the buzzwords and marketing phrases that go along with a particular named or branded Thing.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Why Technical Debt Matters for Product People. As the person in charge of the product, you may not be terribly concerned about how clean and well-structured the code is. But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1].

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Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Am I the only one who does this? Algorithmically, social media is designed to be rage-inducing — deliberately, cynically — in order to get more clicks and show you more ads. And it’s ripping apart society.

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ElegantJ BI

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Data Visualization Tools that are Smarter Can Make Users Smarter! Visual Analytics tools enable users to identify relationships, patterns, trends and opportunities and to explore detailed data with simple drill down and drill through capabilities and make sense of data from all sources, with a guided approach that allows users to identify patterns and trends, and quickly complete analysis with clear results.

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When doing any new development or major overhaul of existing SSIS architecture, I almost always recommend to clients that they deploy those packages to the SSIS catalog. Using the catalog to store and execute SSIS packages takes a lot of the manual work out of development and maintenance, particularly when it comes to package logging. When you execute a package.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In slide #9 of this deck about using cycle time analytics in forecasting, Troy Magennis shows that when four people plan to meet for dinner, there is only one chance in 16 that all four will arrive on time. Typical corporate management thinking would solve this problem by creating a Department of Dinner Planning and promulgating detailed procedures, based on Industry Best Practices, to ensure people arrived on time for each dinner.

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Juice Analytics

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The following scene is one of the most pivotal moments in the Game of Thrones series. As a loyal viewer , this scene represents a turning point for Tyrion. He has reached a breaking point after a lifetime of conflict with his father. His speech is the moment that he sets out on a different path, a path that ultimately leads to (spoiler) the murder his father and (unsurprisingly) a deep schism with his family.

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Domo

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We’ve all heard it or even seen the stats to back it up: The volume of data generated each minute grows exponentially. In fact, if IDC’s predictions are to be believed, the world will eclipse the 170 zettabyte threshold by 2025. That’s five times what was created in 2018. For that reason, there has never been a bigger opportunity for businesses to gain proactive insights into all the information available to them.

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Business Analysis Hub

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Introduction. First of all, let’s get this out of the way. Gamestorming is not new. Gamestorming is a collection of ‘games’ put together under the banner of ‘gamestorming’. As a business analyst (BA) I can assure you there will be many games in the book and on the website, that you have used in your role under different guises. Dave Gray (co-author of ‘ gamestorming’ ) put it best when he described himself and his fellow authors as the Grimms brothers.

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ElegantJ BI

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Data Visualization Tools that are Smarter Can Make Users Smarter! Visual Analytics tools enable users to identify relationships, patterns, trends and opportunities and to explore detailed data with simple drill down and drill through capabilities and make sense of data from all sources, with a guided approach that allows users to identify patterns and trends, and quickly complete analysis with clear results.

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Innovation

Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 19, 2018

At the far end of an out-of-the-way aging strip shopping center in southern Louisiana, there stands a small and modest sushi restaurant. The exterior could be described as tasteful minimalistic: there are no big signs, no flashy advertising, and the word “fancy” would never be used to describe it. Inside, it is a small space, seemingly purposeful in its meager.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Warning: Preachy content. In working with technical people at the individual and team levels, I often find attitudes that pull toward one extreme or the other: Either our work is inherently uninteresting, and we’re only in it for the paycheck; or our work is a boundless source of joy, learning, and achievement through which we can transcend the human condition.

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Juice Analytics

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Christmas is a special time of year. We all have our favorite aspects of the season. In the spirit of Christmas and the Christmas carol, the 12 days of Christmas, here are the Juice team’s 10 favorite visualizations. You will recognize some of these as your own favorites, but some are exclusive to the Juicebox platform. To learn more about the visualizations exclusive to Juicebox and Juice design schedule some time with us.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 13, 2018

At work, “stuff” inevitably hits the fan–it’s just a matter of when. However, there are things you can do to ensure important workplace relationships weather any storm, regardless of its fury. The Problem. We don’t often invest enough time in developing durable workplace relationships. Many of us just hope that when things get difficult, everyone will just play nice.

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Actian

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Modern businesses move fast and the speed of business is accelerating every day with no sign of slowing. To survive, companies must find ways to remove friction in their systems and business processes – leveraging real-time operational data and translating it into actionable insights that drive activities across the company. From strategic decision-making to low-level operations and customer experience, your entire company must have up-to-date information and insights to keep pace with the speed

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ElegantJ BI

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Can Tally Help My Business Manage with Easy-to-Use Tools and Reporting? Every Tally user sees the value of the Tally solution and its features and functionality. IF anything, Tally users just want to use the solution more but the need to access the information within Tally can be difficult to address because Tally is a desktop app, accessible from within the walls of the enterprise.

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Built into the SSIS catalog is a mechanism that can automatically purge log data after a set period of time. In this post, I’ll show you how to set up and manage that functionality. SSIS catalog automatic log cleanup The SQL Server Integration Services catalog database – SSISDB – has several dozen logging tables that are used to capture details. The post SSIS Catalog Automatic Log Cleanup appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Large organizations are often hesitant to replace very old legacy applications that have served mission-critical business operations for many years. In fact, they are reluctant to modify the applications at all. Why is that? Before answering that question, let’s answer this one: Who Cares? Looking back over the course of the “agile” movement, it seems to me that larger companies began to take a serious interest in “going agile” once the idea reached the Early Adopte

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The BA Doc

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Servant leadership is a term that’s been around for decades. While it can sometimes feel overused or outdated, I believe the principles of servant leadership remain as relevant today as they’ve ever been. For example, a 2017 Gallup workplace poll found that roughly two-thirds of American employees are either not engaged or are actively disengaged from their work.

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Actian

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Digital transformation of business is one of the biggest trends of the IT industry during the past few years and is projected to continue to be an important part of companies’ business strategies through 2020. With digital transformation initiatives, companies are transforming business processes to leverage modern technology in new ways – deeply integrating technology-enabled automation with human-driven tasks to create hybrid business/technology processes.

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ElegantJ BI

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Can Tally Help My Business Manage with Easy-to-Use Tools and Reporting? Every Tally user sees the value of the Tally solution and its features and functionality. IF anything, Tally users just want to use the solution more but the need to access the information within Tally can be difficult to address because Tally is a desktop app, accessible from within the walls of the enterprise.

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This article focuses on my experience starting as a customer service representative and working myself up to become a lead analyst in my organization. I did not start with many special skills or talents but I wanted to reflect on what did help me.