How Big Data Changes What You Know About Business Intelligence
Big data is changing industries. Big data is a new application made possible by cloud computing. Big data is about patterns and trends — forward looking business intelligence. For example, a retailer...
View ArticleIs Management Right for You?
It often seems that there should be a natural progression within a company from a job role to a management position. Maybe the person getting promoted wanted to become the team leader, worked hard for...
View ArticleThe Key to Successful Business Transformation
Michelle Moore is a contributor for the Global Knowledge UK blog. For more courses and information, visit Global Knowledge UK. There is no question that continual business transformation is the new...
View ArticleMotivating Your Team Without Raises
Lately, it seems that in many workplaces it is easy to claim that the Millennials (Generation Y) are the only employees that need or seek out recognition for the work they are doing while the older...
View ArticleWhat Happens at IBM IOD Won’t Stay at IBM IOD
I’m preparing to attend my first IBM conference next week when IBM Information On Demand 2013 begins in Las Vegas. While it’s not the first IBM conference Global Knowledge has attended since becoming...
View ArticlePerformance Metrics and “Gaming the System”
Performance metrics are a key building block of an organization’s analytics capabilities—with good reason. Everyone wants to understand how well their organization performs, and there’s often data...
View ArticleBusiness Intelligence – From Backroom to Mission-Critical
Business Intelligence (BI), as we know it today, is an industry that’s been on a wild ride for the last 25 years. It has evolved from the basic idea of a top-down methodology to store data and provide...
View ArticleSAP Goes “All In” in Vegas with BI Cloud Software
The company that gave us HANA is at it again with a pair of new business intelligence product offerings that could reshape how business data is analyzed. Over the last few years SAP showed us what...
View ArticleYou’re Upgrading to SAP BI 4.2, Now What?
Support for older versions of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence suite will run out at the end of 2015, meaning that a large number of organizations are upgrading to the latest SAP...
View ArticleWhat BI Architects and Admins Need to Know about SAP BusinessObjects BI4
In my previous two posts about training for SAP Business Intelligence (BI), I wrote about training universe designers and end users for SAP’s BusinessObjects BI4 platform. Today, as the final part of...
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