by Shane Gibson | Feb 14, 2020 | Analytics, Business Intelligence, CloudBI
Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms is out Its that time of year again, New Year has been and gone, Christmas is but a memory, in half the world Winter is mid flow and in the other half (including my half) are mid summer...
by Shane Gibson | May 24, 2016 | CloudBI, Qlik Sense
When using the Qlik Sense Desktop you can easily add Excel or CSV files to your new application by selecting them in the add data window. What I missed was the fact that this option also allows you to add a QVD easily as the source file. Just select “All...
by Shane Gibson | Feb 22, 2016 | Amazon Web Services, CloudBI
We play with a lot of the new stuff in AWS when it comes out to see what it does, how it works and to think about how we can incorporate it into what we do to remove manual effort. Every now and again we see a feature documented and for some reason can’t seem to...
by Shane Gibson | Apr 10, 2015 | CloudBI, YellowfinBI
Up to date and easy to find documentation! One of the coolest things about Yellowfin is that they do releases every month which includes squashed bugs and a raft of smaller new features, as well as point releases every six months or so, that typically introduce major...
by Shane Gibson | Oct 6, 2014 | CloudBI, YellowfinBI
One of the things you often hear is people discussing how sexy or easy to use a BI tool is. I remember when I was at Oracle and for my (future) sins was trying to sell Oracle Applications up against Peoplesoft. We constantly got our arses whipped and one of the...
by Shane Gibson | Sep 17, 2014 | AgileBI, CloudBI
As part of our adoption of AgileBI, we have started the journey using the BEAM* methodology, to introduce Agile in our requirements gathering and data modelling approach. We have used this approach on a couple of projects, and as Shaun has blogged, we have also done...
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