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As the continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic create business planning and execution uncertainties, Dresner Advisory Services’ primary research shows that organizations increasingly see business intelligence (BI) projects based in…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is driving many organizations to rapidly re-evaluate and mitigate risk to capital, costs, and operations. Asset divestment, operational geography, supplier substitutions, and the trickle-down effect of…
The biggest obstacles to technology adoption often are not technical. This is especially true for organizations considering use of artificial intelligence / machine learning (AI / ML) in enterprise performance…
In numerous ways, digital transformation outpaced the formal and continuing education of a significant percentage of workforce professionals. For example, when PCs matured sufficiently to become a workplace standard, they…
Most adults, acting in the best long-term health interests of their children, at one time or another dictate that kids just need to eat their vegetables. In many cases, palate…
With the declaration that “dashboards are dead,” we see another example of vendors strongly suggesting that all new is “good” and all “old” quickly approaches obsolescence. Declaration of such obsolescence…
An enterprise performance management (EPM) system represents a key element of performance management. It allows an organization to plan for the impact of various internal and external factors on its…
Organizations often leverage systems integrators (SIs) and consultants to plan, build, run, and/or optimize their BI and analytics solutions. Engagement models include staff augmentation, project management, integrations, establishing success benchmarks…
Globally renowned soccer star Pele once said: “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or…
Our 10th annual deep dive into cloud behavior and sentiment finds enthusiasm at an alltime high, with a majority considering cloud services either critical or very important (see the 2021…
Financial key performance indicators (KPIs)—such as revenue, profitability, and earnings per share—dominate performance management. Our research shows that organizations consider financial KPIs at least twice as important as other types…
Dresner Advisory Services defines Analytic Data Infrastructure (ADI) as the underlying infrastructure that provides the data management and operations needed for analytic content for business intelligence (BI) and analytic use…
As the continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic create business planning and execution uncertainties, Dresner Advisory Services’ primary research shows that companies increasingly see business intelligence (BI) projects based in…
Though never a simple task, the field of data preparation has come a long way from the laborious cleansing, profiling, and fumbling with tables of 10 or 12 years ago.…
Most organizations adopt a “traditional” approach to business intelligence (BI) and analytics, which is to keep analytic capabilities independent of back-end transaction processing systems. This strategy means using third-party vendor…
The response to business challenges stemming from COVID-19 changed the fabric of the retail industry. Worker shortages, lack of visibility into supply chains, changes in customer behavior and traffic flow,…
A New York Journal newspaper story in 1897 quoted Mark Twain (now famously) as saying—in response to an article in another newspaper that claimed Twain was dying in poverty in…
The role of the data leader has never been more important to the strategic value of data to an organization—or more promising in its potential to drive increased positive business…
The expansion of cloud business intelligence (BI) platforms, the current software market acquisition cycle, and the need for digital acceleration due to the COVID-19 pandemic can provide impetus for BI…
The US healthcare industry is both a cautionary tale and the source of key learnings. The industry perceives it is successful with business intelligence (BI)—relative to other industries’ self-ratings—and yet…
