Better charting and visuals can create new problems for organizations

There are now loads of ways to create charts and graphs and publish them for consumption by others. But a big problem though is the skill set that is required to use these tools and technologies. You need a very specialized combination of business/domain knowledge, data and technical skills and graphical design abilities. If you [...]

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POSTED BY angela ON June 17th, 2009. PERMALINK

What does easy-to-use really mean?

Everyone agrees that BI (business intelligence) needs to be “easy”. But what really defines easy? And easy for whom (technical implementation and support teams, analysts and report writers or business management and decision makers?)
With all due respect, the bar is set pretty low to make things easier for technical teams—traditional BI tools are so [...]

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POSTED BY angela ON June 16th, 2009. PERMALINK

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