
3 Steps to Determine How Dashboards are Best Suited for your Business
You’ve got the data, you’re pulling reports; but like many other businesses and organizations alike, you may find your team is asking the question, “How are we using our data?” While this is the right question to ask, teams should…

INFOGRAPHIC: Qualitative Data Visualization
Qualitative Data Visualization When it comes to getting a holistic and comprehensive understanding of your data, it’s important to think beyond the numbers. Qualitative data holds a piece of the data story that allows us to dig a little deeper,…

Transportation & Logistics Dashboards: Meet Real-Time Demands
Over the course of the past few months, waves of economic uncertainty and consumer demands have disrupted the logistics industry across both local and global supply chains. As we remain in the midst of a pandemic, many of these challenges…

Education Planning Resources: The Case for Dashboards in K-12 and Higher Education
The educational landscape has drastically shifted across the country. Challenges that have surfaced for both higher education and K-12 are unique to their scope but still share a common thread. The impact of a global pandemic, from early stages of…

ERP + BI: Reasons your Business Needs Both
Behind many businesses of all sizes today sits the integrated structure for process management known as the centralized ERP system. Although manufacturing is one of the major industries found to implement ERP, it is certainly versatile to meet the needs…

Business Strategy Barriers to Entry
Introducing new technologies in the workplace can be challenging. With each new business intelligence (BI) tool, there needs to be an accompanying strategy for how that technology will be implemented and communicated. Understanding where this strategy can go wrong, as…

Visual Intelligence and Business Intelligence
The difference between making good decisions and bad decisions is the quality of information used to make the decision. Timely, relevant, and well-articulated data can guide decision making, but messy and incomprehensible data can stymie innovation and undermine confidence and…

How to Evaluate Self-Service BI Tools
If you’re in the business of business intelligence (BI), your main task may be finding the right BI tool to meet the needs of your organization. With so many self-service BI tools on the market, this might feel like a…

How to Build a Dynamic Balanced Scorecard
You’ll never meet your goals if you don’t know what they are or how close you are to reaching them. For many organizations, this is where a balanced scorecard comes in. What is a balanced scorecard, you may ask? The…

Getting Your Business Intelligence Project Off the Ground
Launching a new BI (business intelligence) project can feel a lot like starting a new workout regimen: tough, tiring, and a little overwhelming. Getting the right forward momentum is key, but it’s a lot easier when you have a solid…