It’s easy to assume that “bigger is better” when it comes to the size of your data team. With everything that comes with being part of a data team, many people assume that a small team struggles to handle it all.

Have you ever been in a meeting where the first half is spent discussing who has the correct figures/ business metrics? What a waste of everybody’s time! In your business, making informed decisions requires accurate and reliable data

Over the years Business Intelligence has become synonymous with dashboards. In the Data Vault User Group’s latest meet-up, Wayne Eckerson – president of the Eckerson Group – presented

When looking for agile techniques for your business, you need to consider A3 thinking. It teaches you that you can manage your projects using an A3 piece of paper.

A business case for a new Data Platform is notoriously difficult to produce as hard evidence of benefits can be elusive. Perhaps, because modern Data Platforms are embedded in operational business processes and have decision-making or revenue generating responsibilities, this difficulty will disappear.

Take a chain. Hold it up and stretch it, placing it under stress. You will see the links tightening, distributing the stress equally along the length of the chain. Now gradually increase the stress until the chain fails. Where did the chain fail? If the stress is passed equally along the length, then it must have failed at the weakest link.

Many organizations struggle to understand the contribution of their business intelligence service. Yes, reports are produced, analyses conducted, decisions are taken – but how can this be reduced to a straightforward statement of value that senior management can appreciate?

Traditional Business Intelligence projects have developed a reputation for becoming increasingly complex, costly and time-consuming, they overrun or fail, and some requirements can be impossible to realize.

Business Intelligence (BI) architectures today need to provide much more than the overnight canned reporting and dashboarding needs of the traditional system.