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Gartner Magic Quadrant 2016 – The BI Landscape has finally changed.
Gartner have released their Magic Quadrant for 2016 and OMG the BI market has substantially changed according to Gartner. In fact, for those of us who love more emotive sentences, you could say there has been a blood bath! The first thing to notice is that...
Agile Data Engineering – Hyper Adoption
Ralph Hughes covers extensively in his book the concept of delivering Agile Data Engineering using Hyper Normalisation and Hyper Generalisation modelling techniques.
Building AgileBI Block by Block – Agile Data Modelling = Data Vault
An awesome Data Vault course We had the privilege of hosting Hans Hultgren in our Wellington offices this week for his 3 day Data Vault Certification course. It was a great three days and confirmed for me that we have found another crucial lego block in our AgileBI...
Trifacta = I can code! (and free data wrangling on your desktop)
Wrangling data as an analyst has always been a tricky issue. If you can code your can do whatever you need with your favourite tool. If you can’t you need to use a GUI data analysis tool.
Tirfacta is the latest in cool data analyst focussed GUI tools.
Hans Hultgren – Wellington Data Vault Modeling & Certification Course
As you may have worked out if you have been reading our blogs for a while, we are big fans of the Data Vault approach as a way of automating the Enterprise layer of a Data Warehouse (DW). Late last year we sent a couple of our DW experts to Sydney to attend Hans...
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...
MSD Marker Project – Better outcomes for New Zealand
I can never find this YouTube Video when I need it, so im putting it in a blog so I can find it next time. https://youtu.be/oK6T9DsH4SU
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...