Are The PMP Concepts Applicable To Smaller-Scale Projects?
The PMI institute, through the PMBOK® (The Project Management Body of Knowledge) Guide book, gives us a fundamental resource for effective project management in any industry. They also provide great advice on how to tailor down the concepts to your project, team, industry. In my opinion, this book is a powerful tool that provides a detailed…
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Critical ETL Mistakes When Building Your BI Solution
Let’s face it, typically you need an ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) process to build your BI solution. By some accounts, this can be a considerable effort; some industry estimates indicate that it takes up to 80% of any data warehouse or BI budget. While there are many well-documented strategies and lessons-learned out there, some…
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Powerful E-Commerce Analysis of Your WooCommerce Data
Whatever e-commerce tool you use for your business, it undoubtedly comes with some reporting capabilities. But while it may be a great foundation to set up your online shop, it likely falls short when it comes to providing the insightful, meaningful, and actionable data analysis you need to help you rise to the top of…
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What Can Gaming Developers Find With Data Analysis?
Modern companies in virtually every industry can benefit from data analysis. This is something we’re beginning to accept blindly as a general statement. However, it can always be interesting to look into what any specific business or industry can hope to gain through big data, and in this case, we’re looking at a fairly complex…
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When Did Wikipedia Become Evil?
Recently I have been thinking about how most tech companies, especially with a monopoly around a technology or communication channel just simply become evil by allowing themselves to be a platform for those that have more money or power rather than the utopian vision that many of us had of the internet as a level playing…
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How Could New Tech Change E-Commerce?
Staying abreast of tech developments is important for e-commerce store holders if they want to stay ahead of the curve. Any technology which reduces overheads improves store efficiency or improves customer service could potentially give early adopters a lead in the competitive e-commerce marketplace. We look at three of the most exciting technologies to arrive…
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To BIME Users Feeling Frustrated – ClicData Can Help
There was a time during which BIME analytics was often mentioned during my prospection calls, not only because we are both French but also because we were both considered as the right solution for powerful data visualization. Their brand awareness seems to have reached a peak when Zendesk showed up to make them part of…
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How to Manage Data Within an Agile Organization
Good data governance makes quality information timely available throughout the lifecycle of the organization. This should include aspects of availability, usability, consistency, data integrity, and data security. Governance should, however, adapt data processes to the needs of the parent agile organization. That said, effective data management does not exist outside the rest of the IT…
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Build Live Connection Between Google Sheet & ClicData
Google Sheets has become one of the most popular spreadsheet applications in the business world. Many businesses rely on its collaborative features for spur-of-the-moment project tracking or to build and maintain core company datasets that are critical to their operations. Eventually, you reach a certain point where building and maintaining visualizations within your Google Sheet…
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Data Model Optimizations For Better Performances
Have you ever tried to make this Sales dashboard your CEO is raving about a bit faster to load? Did you ever wonder if you make the best usage of the multiple set-up options of your ClicData account? Maybe it’s time to start an optimization project, from the Data Model to Dashboard creation’s best practices.…
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What Are BI, Data Visualization & Data Analytics?
A few decades ago, the term “business intelligence” emerged as an umbrella term—much like “big data,” “web 2.0,” and “artificial intelligence”—to represent a set of technologies and processes that together provide business metrics for business users. Typical business intelligence (BI) implementations require the creation of a data warehouse—a placeholder for the business’ key data tables,…
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Tableau & Looker Got Acquired For Big Money. Now What?
In the world of Business Intelligence, big news travel fast and the acquisition of Tableau by Salesforce and Looker by Google was BIG news! For some these types of transactions generate apprehension and fear, for others, it raises hopes and excitement. Apprehension and fear because sometimes these acquisitions are made simply to acquire technology or…
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Data Management in Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities
The healthcare industry is facing various challenges that can hinder its progress. However, if it is able to overcome these challenges, a lot of opportunities will open up which will be beneficial to all of its stakeholders, healthcare workers and patients alike. The greatest of these challenges is the management of the voluminous and ever-increasing…
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10 Keys to Successful BI Implementation
Why is it so challenging to get Business Intelligence (BI) adopted, implemented, and leveraged in an organization? Unlike CRM and ERP tools, which are essentially data collectors, BI requires just as much thought to implement and sometimes even more resources than its transactional counterparts. Yet many organizations continue to struggle to ensure that it is being used…
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Build Powerful Traffic Dashboards In 4 Steps
Google Analytics world 1st used tool to track website traffic and conversions mostly because it’s free and very thorough. You can find a LOT of information, maybe too much. It takes a little bit of practice and time to figure out the user-interface though. If you want to go deep into your traffic analysis, you…
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