Tag: Business Intelligence
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…
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…
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…
Wine Business Intelligence guy visiting Unified in Sacramento
Articles, Events, Retail Space ManagementI’ve heard about Unified in the past, and for the first time I’ll attend Jan 28-30. I’m told the waiting list for vendors is more than a year long to have a booth. That sounds like a lot to me. And some have asked why I’m going to…
6 ways to avoid scope creep in your next BI project
Articles, Data Analytics, Sales ExecutionOne of the greatest threats to a successful Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence project is scope creep, and the consequence is often a poor return on investment – or even failure, if not managed properly. We define “scope creep” simply…
Recap of Day 2 at SQL Pass Summit 2013
Articles, Data Analytics, EventsSQL Pass Summit 2013 day 2 sessions! Another great day at the “office”, with great sessions and great opportunity for networking. The keynote was the hot topic at the water cooler, and it was interesting to listen on how it was perceived…