Tag: enterprise analytics

How “Able” Is Your ETL Process? 8 Ways To Modernize Data Prep, Part 2

Nov 14, 2018 Richard Reynolds

In Part 1 of this blog, I gave a high-level comparison of traditional extract, transfer and load (ETL) tools, desktop data preparation tools and Birst’s modern, built-for-the-cloud ETL tools for data analytics. In this blog, I’ll dive deeper into the eight key ways that, of the three options, Birst is best “able” to meet the rigorous requirements of today’s enterprise users.

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How “Able” Is Your ETL Process? Modernizing Data Prep, Part 1

Oct 9, 2018 Richard Reynolds

For all the exciting discovery that data analytics enables, data preparation involves, for most users, an equal amount of drudgery. That’s true for a number of reasons, first and foremost being that enterprise data is rarely structured for analytic use; it’s often designed for transactional system performance or to minimize storage. Wrangling in data that’s spread across different locations and technologies (database, cube, cloud-based, on-premises, flat files, etc.), and then cleaning up “dirty” (incorrect, improperly encoded, duplicated or blank) data is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, constantly repeated as data sources come and go.

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Analytics Success Starts With Value-Based Design

Oct 1, 2017 Paul Staelin

[This is the first in a series of blogs on the Birst Value-Based Design (VBD) process. This installment focuses on identifying the top metrics for any analytics deployment, and future blogs will cover other aspects of the VBD process.]

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Panning for Golden Insights in Your Data Lakes

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Feb 6, 2017 Farnaz Erfan

Data lakes provide an economical means for storing and processing data. However, gaps remain in the maturity and capability of data lakes, leaving organizations struggling with how to reap their benefits in analytic scenarios.

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