by Shane Gibson | Mar 21, 2013 | Analytics, Business Intelligence
Quick overview on SAS Visual Analytics from the SAS Software Youtube channel below. Excuse the number of times they say daaaattaaaa and the word Billion (and no thats not the price 😉 Interesting bits I picked up: It automatically picks the most suitable...
by Shane Gibson | Mar 17, 2013 | Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Integration
SAS has been around for a long time and you have to admit it has been a very successful company announcing USD $2.8 billion in revenue lately, while remaining privately owned and focussed on delivering Analytics and related Business Intelligence software. But...
by Shane Gibson | Mar 3, 2013 | Business Intelligence, Data Integration
When reading the latest 2013 Gartner BI and Analytics Magic Quadrant I noticed that they have included some definitions of the various capabilities in each of the BI categories. I wil no doubt end up cutting and pasting them into a few BI Strategy documents this...
by Shane Gibson | Mar 2, 2013 | Business Intelligence
Gartner released their latest Magic Quadrant for BI last month. My thoughts as I when reading through the document: Microsoft has shot right up and given the massive disparity in pricing between them and the old Mega BI Vendors club (Oracle, IBM, SAS, SAP) and the...
by Shane Gibson | Sep 30, 2012 | Business Intelligence, Visualisation
This is a great example of using visualisation to tell a story by Hans Rosling’s. Its from the The Joy of Stats which was a show on BBC Four it seems, wonder if it was ever on NZ TV?
by Shane Gibson | Aug 14, 2012 | Business Intelligence
My role at OptimalBI has three areas I concentrate on: Solution Delivery As the founder and part owner of OptimalBI, when I make a promise to a customer on what we will do to add value to their business, I am ultimately responsible for making sure we deliver (of...
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