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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.

How Are You Analyzing and Adjusting to the Mobile Shopper?

Oct 11, 2018 Mona Patel

Every retailer is facing a similar challenge. If you are a retailer and constantly feel the pinch from online giants like Amazon and Google, you have an opportunity to gain back control and competitive advantage with more personalized products and services, building that intimate relationship that these giants simply cannot provide.

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.

Improve your company’s bottom line with analytics

Mar 22, 2018 Richard Reynolds

The explosion of data in the financial services industry is creating new opportunities for business intelligence and analytics. At the same time, this explosion presents significant challenges. Over 2.7 zettabytes of data exist in the digital universe today. Every day, financial services companies seek to use these massive volumes of data to increase margins, reduce risk, boost customer satisfaction, and win in a globally competitive marketplace.

Use Analytics to navigate the digital transformation in manufacturing and distribution

Mar 2, 2018 Azmat Tanauli

Digital transformation in manufacturing and distribution is creating new possibilities, but also headaches for businesses. The availability of new and smart technologies (for example, IoT, Big Data, Blockchain and Machine Learning) provides manufacturers and distributors with additional sources of data, which they can analyze to:

Birst Named to Constellation ShortList™ for Cloud-Based Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms for 4th Straight Time

Feb 13, 2018 Steve Bauer

Today, Constellation Research, a leading technology research and advisory firm based in Silicon Valley, announced that Birst, an Infor company, for the fourth consecutive time, has been named to the Constellation ShortList™ for Cloud-Based Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.

More than Data: It’s Networked BI that Enables a “Single Version of the Truth”

Jan 23, 2018 Richard Neale

Data governance is a broad topic that people seem to agree is important, but still argue about the details. Specifically, it’s hard to find an IT professional or BI and Analytics user who doesn’t believe that good execution on data governance will yield the “single version of the truth” required to make confident, accurate business decisions.

AI+BI: Augmented analytics will soon bring data-driven insight to the masses

Jan 16, 2018 Pedro Arellano

When you hear the words “artificial intelligence,” (AI) what’s the first thing you think of: robots doing backflips, Alexa, medical diagnostic innovations or something else? If you’re a business intelligence (BI) and analytics application user, it’s likely that “data-driven insight to the masses” will soon be top-of-mind.

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