Tag: Business Analytics
SQL Pass Demos Power BI and Power Query – looking good!
Articles, Events, NewsFirst day coming to an end here in Seattle at SQL Pass Summit. One more session today. Lots of demos of Power Query and Power BI, and these tools continue to mature. It is hard to tell what is “about to be released” and what is actually…
ViewPoints 2015 Event Planning begins!
Articles, Events, NewsViewPoints, Business Impact’s bi-annual customer event, is on track for 2015. The informative event is two and a half days of training, networking, and learning the latest information on what is happening in Business Intelligence. The…
Happy Anniversary Business Impact!
Articles, Events, NewsOkay, it feels like I’m a school kid, feeling a little giddy about our 9th birthday of Business Impact. To be honest, I started the company mainly to escape a setting where I felt the skills of business intelligence were vastly underappreciated.…
Aptean BI – Business Intelligence Review
Articles, Data Analytics, Retail Space ManagementAptean announced at its Edge conference a corporate BI platform in QlikView. One size will fit all. Pre-integrated dashboards ready to go; you could change them but then that is your responsibility. These were the messages regarding Aptean…
Aptean Edge Review – From Behind the Sign
Articles, Data Analytics, Trade PromotionRoughly 1000 customers from a dozen computer systems have come to Aptean Edge at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, most happy to be out of the office and eager to hear the Aptean updates. Like most user conferences, Aptean Edge has sessions…
Business Impact Launches a Cloud BI Solution
Articles, Data Analytics, NewsThis week we launch our Business Intelligence solution for the cloud – Business Impact’s SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution. Clients often ask us, why BI in the cloud? What does business intelligence in the cloud do for my organization? …
Convenience Stores Perform Market Basket Analysis To Increase Profitability
Articles, Data Analytics, Retail Space ManagementOne of the most valuable pieces of information in the Convenience Store industry revolves around your customers’ buying habits, their market basket analysis. Understanding your customers’ behaviors to develop effective merchandising strategies…
Take Control of Your Convenience Store Purchasing Data
Articles, Data Analytics, Retail Space ManagementThe glory days where distributors offered full guarantee on all spoilage seems to be gone and in general we see a trend of more and more activities being pushed downstream and your convenience store purchasing data is becoming more and more…
Wine Depletion Data and its Influence on the 3 P’s
Articles, Data Analytics, Retail Space ManagementHow important to you is knowing your actual inventory level with your distributors? Or knowing which product is being sold out of which retailer? Some may say, not very, since your books already reflect a sale. Others may reason that it’s…