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Big Book of AgileData Ways of Working

I am focussing my writing time on creating the “Big book of AgileData Ways of Working”

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QlikSense Menus – They are all greek to me

We found an interesting issue with QlikSense 2.0 the other day, where the menu options all looked like Hieroglyphics or Greek characters rather than the english characters. A close up of the right hand menu shows the problem:     The problem ended up being...

ODE – Just ship it!

Just Ship It Already! Steve Jobs said "Real Artists Ship" . Ma.tt has a great blog about shipping One point oh. And there is a loverly comment at the end of the blog that goes: "A great entrepreneur once told me that “an idea without execution is worthless.” We can...

BI Problems – Data Requirements

BUSINESS USER BUSINESS ANALYST The Scenario? An analyst asks business users what they require to be delivered.  The business user articulates what they require and the analyst documents this in a standard requirements document template. But when the solution is...

ODE & 3CPO – Talking multiple languages

When we decided to start building ODE we knew a few things already. One of those things was that most of our customers already had data warehousing technology.

They had already invested in Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAS, Teradata, Informatica or any of the other raft of data warehouse repositories and ELT technologies that are abound in the market place.

We also knew that it would be a big decision on their part to throw out this technology and implement the technology we decided to pick to be able to use ODE and gain the AgileBI benefits that it provides.

ODE – The start of a journey

About two years ago we started a journey into the world of AgileBI. It all started out of frustration (as most journeys do), frustration about the magic sauce.

The magic sauce was the reason why one data warehouse project would be a raving success and the next a ‘meh’. It was often the reason that after delivering a raving success and then returning 12 months later I would find the data warehouse had become a ‘meh’. By that I mean not updated, not well managed and not delivering to the stakeholders expectations.

The little things I love about YellowfinBI #5

User Guide Videos! Typically I dislike youtube videos and prefer to follow the tutorials to get something done.  But when I was using the Yellowfin Append Sub Query functionality in anger the other day I just couldn't get it to do what I wanted, even as I followed the...