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Self-Service Business Intelligence


Creating Self-Service Organizations with Data Catalogs

Data catalogs help you create a truly self-service organization by efficiently providing analysts with the means to find, understand, and trust their data.

5 Rules for Successful Self-Service Analytics

Making the transition to self-service analytics can be fraught with challenges. These guidelines will help you start with a strong foundation.

The Growing Need for SQL for Hadoop

Experienced data management professionals are adopting Hadoop, and they want to use their SQL skills and tools with Hadoop data.

FreeSight: The Spreadsheet Reimagined

FreeSight isn't like other spreadsheet-esque offerings. A so-called "governance spreadsheet," it supports repeatability and reuse in a class unto itself.

Desire for Mobile BI Continues to Increase

Almost three-quarters of users count on mobile access to BI insights, according to a new survey. Supported by improved technology and users' desire for more data access, mobile BI is growing in a big way.

When Businesses Go Around IT for Analytics

Business people have been going around IT organizations for about as long as they've been dealing with them. In a recent report, Gartner tackles the emerging problem of going around IT for analytics.

Data Wrangling Versus ETL: What’s the Difference?

Three things that distinguish data prep from the traditional extract, transform, and load process.

Using Data to Drive Innovation

To move enterprises forward, you need to support innovation with both technology and organizational culture.

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