Reimagining User Experience in the Analytics World
The analytics realm is evolving at a breathtaking pace, regardless of where you turn there’s a product offering analytics capabilities for your business, and for good reason. To make smart business decisions, you need robust analytics data. However, amidst a sea of...
Why Choose Just One Tool: How To Bring The Titans Of BI Together With Unified Analytics
Are we experiencing the Modern Business Intelligence Renaissance? The last decade has seen the Business Intelligence (BI) space transform from a niche specialty into a cornerstone of modern business operations. With the data revolution, companies recognized the need...
The Future Of Analytics Is Now: Unifying Siloed Tools
It’s no secret that the volume of data being generated in 2023 is absolutely staggering. With this deluge of data, analytics tools have sprouted like mushrooms after a heavy rain, each promising to provide the most actionable insights to take your business to the next...
The Top 5 Benefits of Analytics Catalogs You Need To Know
Analytics Catalogs have been listed as a Gartner Critical Capability since the 2022 version of their Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. The goal of an Analytics Catalog is to unify and centralize all of a company’s analytics....
Everything You Need To Know About Analytics Catalogs, Data Catalogs, And Metrics Stores In One Easy Cheat-Sheet
Three technologies that are being talked about but mistakenly intertwined and overlapped. 1. Data Catalog: What it is:A data catalog is a centralized repository that contains metadata about data assets within an organization. It serves as a comprehensive inventory of...
Time to Say Goodbye to The Era of BI Standardisation!
Let's face it. Every provider of Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics would love nothing more than to see organisations consolidate and unify under their platform or brand. It's the reality of standardisation. The expectation is a seamless transition, but is...
Standardisation is Bullsh*t!
*Sorry readers, we used a bad word. There may be more throughout this article, but if it encourages you to critically examine the concept of standardisation and its negative impact, then it’s worth it. Sorry, not sorry.* Introduction Yeah, you heard us right the first...
Data Storytelling: An Intersection of Art & Science
A few years ago I met Walter Isaacson, former Chairman of CNN, Editor of TIME, and author of Steve Jobs' biography. If you can’t tell from his pedigree, Isaacson is a great storyteller. He also wrote about other famous innovators including Benjamin Franklin, Albert...
Centralize and cut costs: Is it time to rethink an Enterprise Portal?
Organizations today are faced with more decision-making challenges than ever before. This is due to the sheer volume of data, disparate sources, and breadth of information that they must process to operate effectively—not to mention their competitors’ efforts to...
Data Culture Matters (part 1)
Gartner currently covers over 250 analytics vendors in their research. By the time you are done reading this article, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were two new vendors or tools. With the recent explosion of business intelligence and analytics tools on the market,...
Data Culture Matters (part 2)
4. Data Champions and Culture Catalysts If your efforts to create a rich data culture are going to be successful - identifying, recruiting, and partnering with enthusiastic data champions within the organization is an absolute must. C-Suite mission statements and...
Theia Rebrands as Digital Hive to become the ‘Netflix of Analytics and BI’ for Enterprises with Multiple Tools
“Cool Vendor” also announces new machine learning-driven personalization and recommendation capabilities as part of new product vision 29 September 2020 - US-based Theia, which provides an intelligent enterprise portal for organizations running multiple analytics and...
Higher Education Is Hurting – Data Can Help (COVID 2020 )
Those of us preaching the power of data - on LinkedIn, on stage at keynotes, and at yearly budgeting meetings - prescribe data as the solution to all problems. However, we all know the execution of a powerful analytics strategy is often more challenging than...
Gartner Cool Vendors 2020 Announced
Digital Hive has been named a 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor in Analytics and Data Science With the average organization using 3.8 different BI solutions, and the number of different business roles wanting to analyze the data increasing, it’s critical that businesses make...
Increase Customer Retention | Customer Analytics Portal
As companies race to find value in their data and improve the customer experience, many have overlooked an obvious value-add: providing analytics for the customer. Client-facing analytics differentiates companies from the competition, helping increase market share,...
How are Triathlons and Analytics Similar?
Recently, I finished my second Ironman 70.3 triathlon (for the record, that is NOT me in the photo). The triathlon is made up of three segments: swim, bike, and run. While the finishing time is reflected as a single value, there are 5 distinct times that comprise the...
“Just the facts, ma’am. Just the facts”
Today I had the opportunity to attend Tableau’s “Design tricks for great dashboards” webinar. The speaker was Andy Cotgreave, a visualization expert and Tableau veteran. During the webinar, Andy touched on ‘framing’. As a level set, framing is about the context in...