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How Qlik approaches Big Data Visualizations

This insight makes you understand how Qlik can help you gain more value from big data.

Peter Van Craenenbroeck

Wednesday 20 December 2017

Advanced logging in IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)

This insight describes the maturity levels of a TM1 application, for handling data and metadata quality. Most of the integrated TM1 applications have a global technical setup.

Barry Jansen

Friday 15 December 2017

The role of Predictive Analytics in Digital Marketing

Most Marketers still highlight data an underused asset. Although marketing is already data-driven area, most organizations struggle leveraging any data smartness in their entire digital marketing. We outline the use-cases & how to get started

Bart Van Der Vurst

Monday 4 December 2017

Understanding the various types of Predictive Analytics tools

Predictive Analytics is a must. To prevent technology & skills to be a blocker for using Predictive Analytics, we see that more and more predictive tools emerge. In this insights, we outline the three types of predictive tools: coding tools,...

Bart Van Der Vurst

Tuesday 28 November 2017

SAP BW/4HANA: The Next-Generation Business Warehouse

SAP BW/4HANA, the Next Generation real-time data warehouse was launched in September 2016. This article gives an overview of the solution, the key benefits and the migration paths to BW/4HANA, as opposed to the previous SAP BW releases. It will also...

Adrien Constant

Friday 27 October 2017

Planning Analytics Workspace

Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) will be the new face of IBM's legendary TM1 planning and analysis platform. The main functionalities are a rich interactive user interface, an easy synchronization and data discovery interface. PAW is not merely an...

Pieter-Jan Beckers

Monday 2 October 2017

Flavours of Power BI

Over the years Power BI evolved a lot and with this originated several ways of working with it. There are different license models, free and paying. Next to a desktop version there is also a cloud version and recently Microsoft released an on-...

Davy Knuysen

Thursday 10 August 2017

Can Qlik technology be considered as a full data warehouse?

Qlik can be considered as a "all-in-one" data warehousing solution and reporting tool that is flexible and future-proof. In this insight, we will demonstrate that Qlik has a solid data model that can be used for both guided analytics as data...

Cédric Lupo

Tuesday 8 August 2017

IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAX)

The object of this insight is to answer the following question: "What makes switching to IBM Planning Analytics for excel worthwhile, and will it cover for the functionality already available through TM1 perspectives?". To answer that question we...

Barry Jansen

Friday 28 July 2017

Why engage with IBM TM1 FAP on top of your consolidation?

With this insight, we target to describe the additional functionality and reporting possibilities that you can bring to your Cognos Controller consolidation platform by activating the Cognos TM1 FAP (Financial Analytic Publisher) solution. Moreover...

Tom Pauwels