How our data methodology bridges the gap between data and business teams

by Maxx Silver | Jul 19, 2023 | Business Intelligence Process, Data Engineering, Data Management

An oft-cited recent statistic in the data space is that, on average, Chief Data and Analytics Officers remain in their roles for just three years. Given that the average lifecycle of a data project is three-to-five years (and let’s be honest, the change is constant),...

Are Data Preparation and Data Analysis separate practices in your business?

by Zachary Zeus | Feb 6, 2019 | Business Intelligence Process

I have observed that in most organisations there is a clear delineation between teams which manage data lakes or warehouses and teams which analyse data. The specialists who build BI assets such as reports, dashboards, and cubes will be separated from the engineers...

5 reasons you should be using RAIDS? (Redundant arrays of Inexpensive Data Stores )

by Zachary Zeus | Dec 17, 2014 | Analytics Products, Business Intelligence Process, Fun and Interesting, Main Blog, Uncategorized

It’s a well known fact IT people in particular obsess about where they are storing their data. We read benchmarks and other performance measures to see what’s up, whether our Database is still cutting the mustard or we should think about (sigh) moving on...

Data: Let’s think in more refined way about this messy subject

by Zachary Zeus | Dec 2, 2014 | Analytics Products, Business Intelligence Process

ISO 55000 defines Asset management as the “coordinated activity of an organization to realize value from assets”. WikipediaIn a recent commentary by David Norris of Bloor Research, he explored the subject of data asset management, it’s critical...

How to set up Mongo on Pentaho

by Zachary Zeus | Aug 18, 2014 | Analytics Products, Business Intelligence Process, How To, Main Blog

With the Pentaho 5.1 release there was a really exciting innovation – analytics directly against a Mongo DB cluster.  Mongo on Pentaho is exciting because it means that you can do advanced data discovery against Mongo collections directly. Better Together...

9 ways Pentaho and BizCubed helps avoid “Common BI Mistakes”

by Zachary Zeus | Aug 13, 2014 | Analytics Products, Business Intelligence Process, Main Blog, Resources

We saw recently saw this article “9 Common BI Software Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)” from Jennifer Lonoff Schiff at ComputerWorld.com.  As we reviewed the common mistakes, we felt that the Pentaho analytics platform addresses them all pretty well.  So we...