by Jean Collins | Dec 22, 2016 | General BI
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Diver accepts input from many sources, but did you know that you can screen scrape information from the Web to use as input? For example, do you want to integrate daily exchange rate data, weather data, or transportation schedules into a model or cBase?
Tweet: How to screen scrape web data for input into Diver
Paul Duggan, Software Development Manager at Dynamic Business Informatics Ltd. (DBI), recently presented a method to accomplish just this at our annual distributors’ conference. With a few steps, you can pull data from the web. In short, you can use a Google sheet to import the web page data, download the shared Google sheet to a local .csv file, and use the .csv file as input to Diver. Sound simple? Let’s give it a try! (more…)
by admin | Feb 12, 2016 | General BI
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Our biggest asset here at Dimensional Insight is our people. From our support team, to our consultants, to our developers, to sales, to marketing, to documentation, and to our finance team, we place a very high value on the people we employ.
It’s the dedication of our employees to creating a superior product and helping our customers gain deep insights from that product that enables us to continually rank high in customer surveys (such as the 2015/2016 Best in KLAS awards, which was recently announced).
Tweet: Meet a stellar member of the Dimensional Insight team – our consultant Arthur Musah
To that end, we’d like to introduce you to some of the dynamic people who work here at Dimensional Insight and live and breathe business intelligence. Today, we are featuring one of our consultants from our headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts, Arthur Musah. Learn more about Arthur’s experience with clients, and his intriguing project that he’s developing outside the office! (more…)
by Rose Curtis | Nov 23, 2015
Data analytics, governance, and management white papers to guide and inform you. Download our white papers to gain insights on how we can help you harness your data to improve productivity, reduce costs, and optimize efficiency for your organization. Learn how our...
by Alison Nicoli | Jul 28, 2015 | General BI
Reading Time: 6 minutes Anyone in the business world has heard the urban legend about “Big Data” and how it’s growing at an abnormally fast rate, leaving companies in shambles. But how much of a threat can it really pose? It’s not like it’s growing at an alarming rate...
by Bernard Seban | Apr 2, 2014 | General BI
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The 3 integrated steps of business intelligence deployment
When you deploy a business intelligence (BI) solution, in order to gain the most meaningful insights, it’s important that you consider some key aspects prior to implementation. In our previous blog post, we outlined the 3 integrated steps that you should undertake when you are deploying. To quickly recap, they are:
- Collection: What data sources need to be joined?
- Assembly: What are the business rules defining how the data fits together?
- Delivery: Who should access information and how?
We have discussed the important aspects of data collection in a previous post. Now let’s talk about our second step: data assembly.
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by Bernard Seban | Mar 27, 2014 | General BI
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 3 integrated steps of business intelligence deployment
When it comes to deploying a business intelligence solution, there are three integrated steps that you need to understand and implement to get the most out of your deployment:
- Collection: What data sources need to be joined?
- Assembly: What are the business rules defining how the data fits together?
- Delivery: Who should access information and how?
In this blog series, we will examine the different aspects to consider during each of the three steps to ensure you will glean the most meaningful insights from your BI implementation.
Step 1: Collection
Before you even start collecting your data, you should ask some questions about your source data to make sure you’re starting with the right information and parameters for your deployment. (more…)
by | Feb 7, 2013 | General BI
Reading Time: 5 minutesCFOs are paid to think strategically, identifying profitable opportunities and creating new business models. Yet in reality, they still spend too much of their time on nuts and bolts accounting, which distracts them from the strategic work that could help grow corporate profitability and remain ahead of competitors.
One reason for this disconnect lies in the area of revenue and expense reporting. Despite significant technological advances in budgeting, forecasting and compliance, revenue and expense reporting is still a time-consuming manual process that saddles the finance department with inefficient and unnecessary workloads.
In this blog post we’ll look at three major expense and revenue reporting challenges that face CFOs. (more…)
