Deciding which BI analytics tool to buy shouldn’t be based on the product with the most features but on the tool that best supports the needs of your business users. There are […]
Comparing BI analytics tools from the leading vendors
Tableau’s new Vizable app puts analytics at your fingertips
The free iPad app lets you explore data by pinching, swiping and dragging The rise of big data has put considerable wind into the sails of visualization tools like Tableau, but it’s […]
The Best Self-Service Business Intelligence Tools of 2015
Business intelligence (BI) isn’t just for database experts anymore. We test and compare five cutting-edge self-service BI tools aimed at giving you direct access to all of the insights your data can […]
Help Your Business With These Enterprise Business Intelligence Trends
Contrary to belief, changes in the business intelligence (BI) technology market are not being led by big, well-established players of the enterprise software industry – rather, some of the most exciting BI […]
Three Ways Zoomdata Makes Big Data Pop
When it comes to big data visualization tools, there’s no shortage of players. Tableau, Qlik, Spotfire, and Microstrategy are established incumbents with big followings. But there’s a fresh crop of visualization tools […]
3 Enterprise Business Intelligence Trends That Can Benefit Your Business
When it comes to changes in the business-intelligence (BI) technology market, old giants of the enterprise software industry like SAP and Oracle aren’t leading the charge as you might expect. Instead, younger […]
The Skills and Tools of Predictive Analytics
I am always at a loss in describing the skills of predictive analytics, for there are many. I am working on another book about analytics that has a different approach than Predictive Analytics using R, though I am using material from three chapters. The new book is an operations research approach to analytics, covering a different set of methods, skill and tools. Combined, the two books are over 1000 pages, so perhaps you can see my dilemma. Hence, this article is going to touch the basic skills required and several useful tool.
