BI - Business Intelligence

BI Product

In spring 2016, Cerm decided to enrich its product portfolio with an analytical solution 'as a service', on top of their business software offering.

Recommended books

Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring

This is probably Stephen Few's most popular book. It clearly explains how to design dashboards for optimal communication of the data and it also shows you lots of examples of badly designed dashboards and how to improve them.

Jeudi, 22 décembre 2016

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Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

Stephen Few is one of the world's most well-known gurus on data visualization. In this book, he gives a clear overview on how to format tables and matrices and how to design your visualizations for optimal communication. A must read for every business intelligence professional!

Jeudi, 22 décembre 2016

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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions

Window functions are a special construct in the SQL language that allow you to easily calculate more complex requirements, such as year-to-date calculations, moving averages, percentiles and so on.

Jeudi, 22 décembre 2016

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Star Schema The Complete Reference

One of the best books around on dimensional modelling. Adamson takes you onto a tour around the different types of dimensions and fact tables and clearly explains how to design them and how to construct your ETL. At least as good as the Kimball books.

Jeudi, 22 décembre 2016

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Power Pivot and Power BI: The Excel User's Guide to DAX, Power Query, Power BI & Power Pivot in Excel 2010-2016

This book is a very detailed introduction to DAX, the powerful language behind Power Pivot and Power BI. Due to it's clear writing style, the book is an excellent starting point for beginners. However, even DAX pros will get value out of this book.

Jeudi, 22 décembre 2016

Mobile Reports in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2016

Mobile business intelligence has been part of everyone’s business intelligence roadmaps for quite some time now. However, until recently, Microsoft didn’t have a solid offering in its SQL Server BI stack that could tackle the specific needs of displaying reports and dashboards on mobile devices. With SQL Server 2016, Microsoft aims to change all this.

Mardi, 15 novembre 2016

BI Phase I - Finance

After a Business Intelligence & Performance Management roadmap, Essers decided to define a first Business Intelligence iteration focused on the financial data of IBS ASW-FIN (on AS/400 - iSeries).

Business Intelligence Roadmap in Food Logistics

element61 helped Special Fruit to define a longer term plan & strategy for Business Analytics, including architecture, phasing, scoping & budget indications.

Dyka - Tessenderlo Group

Implementation of a Performance Management architecture & setup of a BICC within an SAP BI Context

element61 has been involved in the Tessenderlo Group BI program since 2007. After the definition of a Business Intelligence Roadmap, a new SAP Business Warehouse 7 deployment was executed. The current SAP Business Warehouse includes data from multiple SAP source systems and covers functional areas.