Archive for March, 2010

The use of mobile BI and alerts

Monday, March 29, 2010 7:01 No Comments

The interest surrounding mobile BI ebbs and flows over time.  Even though many solution providers offer mobile BI solutions, the reality is that adoption remains low.  And even though many decision makers take their work on the road, BI doesn’t seem to be a part of the equation outside of office or use of traditional [...]

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A broad look at Klipfolio’s v5.4 release and operational dashboards

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:00 No Comments

Klipfolio announced their v5.4 release of Klipfolio Dashboard today – a desktop dashboard focused on providing operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).  Some interesting additions to their product are:

Search – the ability to use search functionality within the dashboards to filter out columns and to identify interesting data points using Boolean operators.
Drill across – in addition [...]

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BI and unstructured data continued…

Sunday, March 21, 2010 15:18 No Comments

Last week I wrote a piece for Dashboard Insight about the convergence of BI and unstructured data.  Over the years the topic of unstructured data keeps poking its head into the realm of business intelligence, but has yet to be seen on a large scale.  Some interesting vendors that I wrote about (please see [...]

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The influence of open source on general BI

Monday, March 8, 2010 9:01 1 Comment

Until recently, open source solutions were most popular within various developer communities but remained on the fringe of general business intelligence implementations. Over the past couple of years, however, open source BI, data warehousing, and data integration solutions have become more mainstream within the BI market creating a shift in the way BI solution providers. [...]

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