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Better BI: March 2012

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Dedicated to a better way of conducting Business Intelligence. Traditional BI has failed to deliver on its promises of providing fast, high quality results to business stakeholders. We aim to remedy the situation. Tao of Tableau - The Amazing Mystery Tooltip. This is a weird little anomaly. The explanation for its occurrence, as far as I can tell is contained in the "The Explanation" dashboard, and follows here:. The Worksheet's Tooltip, the desired one showing Event, Tide Height, and Tide Date and Time,...

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Better BI—About

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Business Intelligence Faster, Simpler, Better. Above all, show the data.". Deliver Value Early And Often. All BI is local. The past couple of decades have seen advances in technological capability and capacity harnessing the phenomenal increases in computing power along with stunning increases in the volume of business data. Sadly, however, the evolution of Business Intelligence. With its foundation in consolidated dimensionally modeled marts and warehouses fed by complex ETL processes and fronted by mon...

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Better BI—Manifesto

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Business Intelligence Faster, Simpler, Better. Above all, show the data.". Deliver Value Early And Often. All BI is local. Manifesto for Better Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence's virtue is its ability to provide meaningful, valuable, data-based information and insights into the state of an organization. This information and these insights are valuable only to the extent to which they provide decision makers the opportunity to make effective decisions about their business. There is a better way.

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Better BI—Consulting

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Business Intelligence Faster, Simpler, Better. Above all, show the data.". Deliver Value Early And Often. All BI is local. About Better BI Consulting. Better BI's advantages and benefits are applicable and provide substantial benefits across the full spectrum of BI. As your BI partner, we can work with you to maximize the value of your data. Based on over twenty five years of experience, Better BI delivers the best possible information and insights into your business data in the shortest possible time.

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Better BI—TWB Maps

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Business Intelligence Faster, Simpler, Better. Above all, show the data.". Deliver Value Early And Often. All BI is local. The Tao of Tableau. The Tableau Workbook Inventory System. Tableau, from Tableau Software. Is the leading 5th-generation data analysis tool. Tableau's emergence enabled the development of Better BI. As we began to employ Tableau across the full spectrum of BI activites it became apparent that we were achieving better results faster than anyone had anticipated. Traditional BI's fatal ...

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Better BI—In Practice

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Business Intelligence Faster, Simpler, Better. Above all, show the data.". Deliver Value Early And Often. All BI is local. Better BI in Practice. Better BI activities support the immediate delivery of the best possible analytics in the shortest possible time:. Constant interaction with business decision makers in order to satisfy their information needs. Ruthlessly keeping a focus on information delivery, immediately and continually.

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Better BI—Contact

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Business Intelligence Faster, Simpler, Better. Above all, show the data.". Deliver Value Early And Often. All BI is local. You may be asking yourself: "Why do we need Better BI? Fair enough. Here's the answer: traditional BI has failed to deliver value commensurate with the time, energy, effort, money, and resources organizations have expended in its pursuit. Addresses and corrects these shortcomings for all types of BI efforts. The absence of direct data access and analytics tools creates the situation ...

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Better BI—Tableau

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Business Intelligence Faster, Simpler, Better. Above all, show the data.". Deliver Value Early And Often. All BI is local. The Tao of Tableau. Tableau is an almost frictionless tool beautifully designed for creating the highest quality visual data analysis. Inexperienced users are able to achieve stunningly good results right off the bat—graphs and charts and tables of the highest quality appear, seemingly magically, as if data analysis is the most natural and graceful of activities. The Tao of Tableau i...