2016

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Feed Your Organization: Avoid Packaged BI. Choose ‘Fresh’ BI Tools!

ElegantJ BI

In a way, choosing a business Intelligence tools is like choosing the right food. In recent years, we have all become more aware of the difference between packaged foods and fresh foods. Today, businesses are becoming more aware of the differences between ‘packaged’ BI tools and self-serve BI tools that provide ‘fresh’ views and data analysis.

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If It Was My Organization

Agile Coach

Taking an idea from The Feedback Wrap , this post was written on a beautiful Sunday night by the pool on the eve of Agile 2016, and after a skimming of “ Why Business People Speak Like Idiots “ I’m in a mellow mood, but feeling a little annoyed with whole world of Agile lately. Remember when good leadership was good leadership? Now it HAS TO be Agile leadership.

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Creating Custom Table in SSAS Tabular using Table and Row Constructors in DAX

BI Insight

A while ago I was working on a Power BI project which the customer wanted to define a new table directly in the model. The easiest way to achieve this in Power BI Desktop is to “Enter Data” which creates a new table by typing or pasting in new contents. I was thinking of that … Continue reading Creating Custom Table in SSAS Tabular using Table and Row Constructors in DAX.

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Is Scrum Right for Your Product?

Roman Pichler

When is Scrum Most Helpful? A process like Scrum is a great fit for your product when it is brand-new or young, and when you extend its life cycle, as shown in the picture below. This means that not every product will benefit from Scrum: Products that are maturing or declining won’t benefit from Scrum—at least not to the same degree. The picture above shows the traditional, bell-shaped product life cycle curve with three key events: launch—the product first becomes available; achieving product-m

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Supercharge your Project Management career | Simplilearn webinar starts on 22-12-2016 10:30

Simplilearn

Do you know all you need to know to get ahead and make it as an expert Project Manager? In this webinar, we explain how to keep on track to Project Management expertise. The webinar will cover the essential knowledge you need, not just to retain your PMP® certification through the PDUs but also to gain the skills you need to manage any Project, Read More.

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Case Study: India-Based Financial Services and Stock brokerage Firm Achieves BI Coverage

ElegantJ BI

A Financial Services firm with more than 700,000 daily transactions in more than 500 locations across India was using a variety of BI tools, spreadsheets and MIS solutions, resulting in cumbersome reporting, data consolidation and security, and programmer and analyst dependencies. With ElegantJ BI, they rolled out BI to a large number of users across India with complete data security and integrity.

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Why I Stopped Going to Agile Events

Agile Coach

This year at Agile and Beyond was the first Agile event I attended since I presented with Declan Whelan at Agile 2015. I remember someone quite well known tweeting out something to the effect of: “ Is this year’s #agile2015 the usual echo chamber? ”. Then this year at Agile and Beyond, I had a conversation with someone who self-admittedly is new to the Agile world, more or less.

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Download Power BI Reports from Power BI Service

BI Insight

A new cool feature added to Power BI Service is the ability to download Power BI reports from Power BI Service. This feature is highly demanded and it’s available from November 2016. I was really excited when I noticed that and I had to try it straight away. I was in a bus back to … Continue reading Download Power BI Reports from Power BI Service.

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BI Tools: Integrate, Embed and SUCCEED!

ElegantJ BI

There is one thing I know about people and that is that they like things to be simple and easy. If your favorite shopping area is a mile from your house, you won’t drive an extra five miles to get to that great store on the outskirts of town. You might drop by if you happen to be in the neighborhood, but the business owner can’t count on your business on an ongoing basis.

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Business Valuation Software: Free Guide to Valutico Platform

Explore our free guide to Valutico, the platform that revolutionizes automated report generation, offers access to 1 million M&A transactions, enables quick benchmarking, and streamlines the entire valuation process. With Valutico, you gain access to: 30-Minute Valuations: Rapidly producing accurate results. 3TB of Financial Data: The expansive data you need at your fingertips.

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BI Tools: Integrate, Embed and SUCCEED!

ElegantJ BI

There is one thing I know about people and that is that they like things to be simple and easy. If your favorite shopping area is a mile from your house, you won’t drive an extra five miles to get to that great store on the outskirts of town. You might drop by if you happen to be in the neighborhood, but the business owner can’t count on your business on an ongoing basis.

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BI Tools: Integrate, Embed and SUCCEED!

ElegantJ BI

There is one thing I know about people and that is that they like things to be simple and easy. If your favorite shopping area is a mile from your house, you won’t drive an extra five miles to get to that great store on the outskirts of town. You might drop by if you happen to be in the neighborhood, but the business owner can’t count on your business on an ongoing basis.

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ElegantJ BI Announces Real Time Cube Capability for Swift Decision-making

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI announces Real Time Cube Management for its BI tools. In addition to its existing MOLAP architecture, and connection with MDX data sources like Microsoft® SSAS and SAP® BW cubes, ElegantJ BI now offers real time cubes to derive data for deep dive analytics in real time and make swift, confident decisions to benefit the enterprise. The ElegantJ BI cube engine enables connection to disparate data sources, databases, CSV files and MDX data sources like Microsoft® SSAS and SAP® BW cubes.

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ElegantJ BI Announces Real Time Cube Capability for Swift Decision-making

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI announces Real Time Cube Management for its BI tools. In addition to its existing MOLAP architecture, and connection with MDX data sources like Microsoft® SSAS and SAP® BW cubes, ElegantJ BI now offers real time cubes to derive data for deep dive analytics in real time and make swift, confident decisions to benefit the enterprise. The ElegantJ BI cube engine enables connection to disparate data sources, databases, CSV files and MDX data sources like Microsoft® SSAS and SAP® BW cubes.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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ElegantJ BI Announces Real Time Cube Capability for Swift Decision-making

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI announces Real Time Cube Management for its BI tools. In addition to its existing MOLAP architecture, and connection with MDX data sources like Microsoft® SSAS and SAP® BW cubes, ElegantJ BI now offers real time cubes to derive data for deep dive analytics in real time and make swift, confident decisions to benefit the enterprise. The ElegantJ BI cube engine enables connection to disparate data sources, databases, CSV files and MDX data sources like Microsoft® SSAS and SAP® BW cubes.

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Using “IN” Operator in DAX

BI Insight

If you are a SQL guy I bet you’ve used “IN” operator zillions of times. You might also looked for the same functionality in DAX and I’m sure you’ve found fantastic blog posts showing you how to mimic the same functionality in DAX. The October release of Power BI Desktop is full of new analytics … Continue reading Using “IN” Operator in DAX.

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Use KPI in Table, Matrix and Card Visualisations in Power BI

BI Insight

One of the coolest features in Power Pivot is the ability to define KPIs based on calculated measures. You can create KPIs in SSAS Tabular as well. Unfortunately, this feature is missing from Power BI. In this post I show you a very simple way to import KPIs and use them in Table, Matrix, Multi-row … Continue reading Use KPI in Table, Matrix and Card Visualisations in Power BI.

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Look, But Don’t Touch! The Gap Between Data Visualization & Data Discovery!

ElegantJ BI

At some point in your life, you have probably been told to ‘look, but don’t touch.’ When it comes to business intelligence, the flaw in the logic of solution design often subjects business users to this same philosophy. With most BI tools (even those we call ‘self-serve’), we limit the users to looking but we don’t allow them to touch and manipulate the data for deep dive analysis.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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IT and Accounting Pros Can Satisfy Standards and Security Compliance and Reporting with BI Tools

ElegantJ BI

In the new world of government regulation, the technology (IT) team and accounting team are both required to monitor, manage and report on financial and regulatory and business process compliance. These auditing requirements are meant to ensure that financial, planning and operational systems are adequately controlled and protected. Industry and governmental compliance requirements are meant to ensure the adequacy and integrity of auditing processes and regulatory compliance including business p

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Look, But Don’t Touch! The Gap Between Data Visualization & Data Discovery!

ElegantJ BI

At some point in your life, you have probably been told to ‘look, but don’t touch.’ When it comes to business intelligence, the flaw in the logic of solution design often subjects business users to this same philosophy. With most BI tools (even those we call ‘self-serve’), we limit the users to looking but we don’t allow them to touch and manipulate the data for deep dive analysis.

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IT and Accounting Pros Can Satisfy Standards and Security Compliance and Reporting with BI Tools

ElegantJ BI

In the new world of government regulation, the technology (IT) team and accounting team are both required to monitor, manage and report on financial and regulatory and business process compliance. These auditing requirements are meant to ensure that financial, planning and operational systems are adequately controlled and protected. Industry and governmental compliance requirements are meant to ensure the adequacy and integrity of auditing processes and regulatory compliance including business p

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Look, But Don’t Touch! The Gap Between Data Visualization & Data Discovery!

ElegantJ BI

At some point in your life, you have probably been told to ‘look, but don’t touch.’ When it comes to business intelligence, the flaw in the logic of solution design often subjects business users to this same philosophy. With most BI tools (even those we call ‘self-serve’), we limit the users to looking but we don’t allow them to touch and manipulate the data for deep dive analysis.

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.

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IT and Accounting Pros Can Satisfy Standards and Security Compliance and Reporting with BI Tools

ElegantJ BI

In the new world of government regulation, the technology (IT) team and accounting team are both required to monitor, manage and report on financial and regulatory and business process compliance. These auditing requirements are meant to ensure that financial, planning and operational systems are adequately controlled and protected. Industry and governmental compliance requirements are meant to ensure the adequacy and integrity of auditing processes and regulatory compliance including business p

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Case Study: India-Based Financial Services and Stock brokerage Firm Achieves BI Coverage

ElegantJ BI

A Financial Services firm with more than 700,000 daily transactions in more than 500 locations across India was using a variety of BI tools, spreadsheets and MIS solutions, resulting in cumbersome reporting, data consolidation and security, and programmer and analyst dependencies. With ElegantJ BI, they rolled out BI to a large number of users across India with complete data security and integrity.

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Case Study: India-Based Financial Services and Stock brokerage Firm Achieves BI Coverage

ElegantJ BI

A Financial Services firm with more than 700,000 daily transactions in more than 500 locations across India was using a variety of BI tools, spreadsheets and MIS solutions, resulting in cumbersome reporting, data consolidation and security, and programmer and analyst dependencies. With ElegantJ BI, they rolled out BI to a large number of users across India with complete data security and integrity.

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Webinar Materials: Power BI Under the Hood

BI Insight

I’d like to thank you all for attending the webinar held on 30th September 2016. I talked about some amazing under cover aspects of Power BI Desktop model. In this session you learnt: how to find Power BI Desktop local port number how to connect to Power BI Desktop model from Excel and SQL Server … Continue reading Webinar Materials: Power BI Under the Hood.

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The Young BA

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.