IoT Initiative to Take BI from 2D Screens to Real Life

Business intelligence tied to a light bulb.  As the bulb changes color in response to changing business conditions and KPIs it can increase user engagement, motivation and drive behavior.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160712005393/en/Sisense-Announces-Business-Intelligence-Virtually-IoT-Initiative

Six Business Intelligence Predictions For 2016

Prakash Nanduri:

• Prediction 1: The big bang you hear is the explosion of innovation. 
• Prediction 2: We must adapt or die. 
• Prediction 3: Who’s BI will you buy?
• Prediction 4: Enough about data – where’s the information?
• Prediction 5: Death by desktop.
• Prediction 6: We’ll see just as many CDO’s hired as fired!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2015/12/17/six-business-intelligence-predictions-for-2016/

BIG - Power of Excel Business Analytics

Power of Excel Business Analytics - Daniel Stiefel, Practical Analytics Services

I attended a feature presentation at Charlotte's Business Innovation & Growth (BIG) meeting today.  Daniel presented 'Preparing the Knowledge Worker of Tomorrow... Today (the Power of Excel for Business Analytics

CBIG ETL Presentation at Microsoft Way

Tonight the Charlotte Business Intelligence Group (CBIG) met at the Microsoft Charlotte office.

Member of the REACH IT class were also present and were further reminded of Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) - Avoiding Costly Mistakes.

Rafael Salas informs CBIG how to avoid costly ETL mistakes

Costly ETL mistakes include:

• Poor BI exception handling
• Inadequate logging
• Lack of sufficient and timely notifications and alerts
• Over coupling / making ETL too complex

Thank you for the sponsors of this programming.  

Learn more about CBIG at http://charbigroup.com/ 

Also, the group was challenged by Marc to become 'Net Neutrality' savvy.  See Marc's Web Technology blog at http://webtechczar.blogspot.com/ .

Validate your feelings with BI

We want to make effective decisions in life.

BI helps validate our 'gut feeling.'

Reference 'The Way Humans Think'
http://smartdatacollective.com/ray-major/198061/way-humans-think

Carolina Code Bootcamp 2014 - CPCC Levine Campus

• Geo Spatial Data... check
• Bootstrap 101... check
• DAX Patterns... check
• Data Management & Data Warehousing... check
• Big Data's Deal... check

Above are only a small portion of the Carolina Code Camp 2014 sessions that I could attend.

Hundreds of Code Camp Attendees

DAX Patterns for Everyday Use - Javier Guillen

BI Core

BI Applications and the Core

BI tools comprise a series of applications that enable organizations to make better decisions by providing accurate, dependable, consistent, and understandable data and reports in a useful format.

Basically, BI means:

• getting the right information to the right people 
• at the right time 
• to support better decision-making and 
• gain competitive advantage.

What will the market size be in the future?
What will be the growth rate be?
What are the key market trends?
What is driving this market?
What are the challenges to market growth?
Who are the key vendors in this market space?
What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the key vendors?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the key vendors?

Reference: http://www.heraldonline.com/2014/04/04/5838297/research-and-markets-global-business.html?sp=/100/773/385/#storylink=cpy