Using Tableau to Help Consumers Make Informed Decisions Did you know that the NSW Food Authority has a “Name & Shame” register on their website? The Register of Penalty Notices is publicly available and allows consumers to see who has been issued with a penalty notice for breaching NSW food safety laws as well as [...]
Over the past five years we have been developing a SQL Server Accelerator Pack that introduces predictability into the uncertain and complex world of software development. Instead of reinventing the wheel each time or finding solutions that are inconsistent and difficult to support, our delivery pack provides templates, conventions and guiding principles that will reduce [...]
With the April Fools’ Day hoaxes and pranks around this week, it poses the question could these tech fakes be indicative of trends in the industry or are they simply make believe? 3 pranks of 2013 and how they could become [...]
I recently had the opportunity to implement the latest version the mobile BI platform Roambi ES 4.5.0.0 for a digital media advertising client. Roambi ES 4.5 is the enterprise “on site” version of the cloud based Roambi solution that delivers reporting to iPad and iPhone devices. Because it’s being hosted on site, Roambi provides the [...]
Reconciliation is a component of Integration Solutions that will lead to the blame game and loss of business confidence if not addressed upfront. How many times do we hear of systems that have been implemented and the business treats them as a mysterious black hole delivering questionable results which differ from the old trusted legacy [...]
It’s arrived - The Kimball University: DW/BI Lifecycle In Depth course . With over 15 years’ experience as a Project Manager and delivering a variety of IT projects, this is the first opportunity I’ve had to attend a specific Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence course focused on the successful implementation and management of the DW/BI environment. Margy Ross, co-author [...]
Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defense contractor, has developed an ‘extreme-scale analytics’ system in conjunction with the US government. The system is capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from a variety of social networking websites. The application is called RIOT (or Rapid Information Overlay Technology), and has somewhat inevitably, been labelled [...]
In recent years, IBM has worked towards the integration of two major components of its Information Management offering: Cognos BI and Cognos TM1. The pairing of the two IBM IM flagships is gradually becoming an appealing combination for the vendor on the BI front. In this article, I will describe some of the main integration [...]
By Chris Kearns, 10 Jan 2013 In this blog I will provide some insight into what’s coming up in Tableau 8. Tableau took the opportunity to showcase some of the new features of Tableau 8 (scheduled for release Q1 2013) at TCC2012. I’ll briefly mention some of the new features below and illustrate with screenshots [...]
By Chris Kearns, 10 Jan 2013 November 2012 saw me make the trip to the 2012 Tableau Customer Conference (TCC) in San Diego and true to Tableau’s word; it was the biggest TCC yet with over 2200 attendees. In this blog post I’ll talk a bit about my experience of the conference stay tuned for [...]
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