A few days back, I stumbled on a Ted-Ed video (link) about how Malcom Mclean shaped the modern world. In the great depression in the ’30s, Malcom Mclean was a 24-year-old truck driver. He got a job taking cotton bales from Fayetteville, NC, all the way to the pier in Hoboken, NJ, for shipping overseas. [...]
Business life during lockdown has gone through one heck of a period. As the business world got locked in a pivotal grapple with uncertainties imposed by the Covid-19 triggered pandemic, BI and Analytics turned out to be the Antidote to weather the Covid blues. Take a peep at the Retail sector. Data and analytics [...]
AutoML, or Automated Machine Learning, is making strides in the enterprise world aided by this unique feature – Empowering easy access to connect machine learning models to business problems, across industries. Sample this one. A marketing manager in an organization has loads of data to work with but lacks support in terms of data [...]
Alteryx has many features that distinguishes it from the other popular ETL products. The key differentiator though is the ability to host a virtual Data warehouse (DWH). It simply means that an Alteryx DB file (.yxdb) can hold up to 2 GB of data and act as a DWH without the need for a [...]
SAP Business Objects BI Suite is a very successful and scalable enterprise reporting solution that has been widely adopted across industries. The recent release of SAP Business Objects BI 4.3 will be known as hybrid solution of SAP Analytics. Linking SAP Business Objects BI 4.3 to SAP Goals SAP Business Objects BI 4.3 improvements [...]
Data governance in the context of data warehousing assumes greater importance. In strengthening data governance, factors like what data to be processed, how data should be made available to end users and how information from data warehouse can be leveraged to meet business goals are some of the salient features considered to maximize value [...]
What is Self-Service BI Self-service business intelligence is simply the empowerment of business owners/users to generate business insights on the fly by allowing them to create their own reports. Often times, Self-service BI refers to the ability to generate reports from published data sets but it also can mean extension of this ability to [...]
What are OLTP and OLAP? They both are databases that get designed to serve different purposes - OLTP denotes Online Transaction Processing and OLAP denotes Online Analysis Processing. What’s common for OLTP and OLAP is that they both are used for data warehousing, and a significant difference in the OLTP vs OLAP comparison is [...]
RPA has been gaining significant acceptance across multiple verticals and many organizations have RPA already as part of their technology landscape. While traditional systems would have the actual task coded for with the end user triggering those tasks through a graphical user interface, RPA performs what a user would do in many of such [...]
As organizations seek to maximize value from their valuable asset, employees, SAP SuccessFactors gives organizations the power to keep employees at the core of business success. And SAP SuccessFactors offers the advantage of raising a cloud-based HR platform at lower costs and accelerating time to value. While organizations want to leverage SAP SuccessFactors to [...]
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