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 [...]
POSTED BY angela ON June 17th, 2009.
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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 [...]
POSTED BY angela ON June 16th, 2009.
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There’s a lot of talk about “Easy BI” and “business intelligence for everyone”. And for obvious reasons: the current state of the art is hard to use and has required companies to scale up on report writers and other personnel with technical-to-business “translation” skills. This swath of infrastructure is responsible for getting still-pretty-raw data from [...]
POSTED BY angela ON June 15th, 2009.
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One of the challenges of the visualization business is that ‘visualization’ means different things to different people. And naturally, people go with what they know. One of the related areas –and one more in the comfort zone of a lot of buyers—is user interface (UI) design. Good web designers should be able to create meaningful [...]
POSTED BY angela ON June 15th, 2009.
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