by Shane Gibson | Jul 14, 2016 | AgileBI, Business Intelligence
BI is Hot, Hot, Hot The BI (Business Intelligence) market in NZ seems to have gone ballistic again with lots of customers looking to refresh their aging legacy BI technologies and reporting processes. It is being driven by a combination of the BI modal concepts...
by Shane Gibson | Jun 17, 2016 | Community
At OptimalBI we don’t sponsor a lot of conferences, but when the opportunity to sponsor the 25th annual GOVIS conference came up, we decided to go for it. We spend a lot our time working with Government organisations so it just made sense. This year’s...
by Shane Gibson | May 24, 2016 | CloudBI, Qlik Sense
When using the Qlik Sense Desktop you can easily add Excel or CSV files to your new application by selecting them in the add data window. What I missed was the fact that this option also allows you to add a QVD easily as the source file. Just select “All...
by Shane Gibson | May 6, 2016 | Data Integration, Open Data, Trifacta
One of the pieces of data we use regularly is dates. Every data repository needs the ability to view the data by day, month, year, etc. There is often also a need to view data based on holidays. Funnily enough, you would think that a list of data containing the NZ...
by Shane Gibson | May 3, 2016 | Business Intelligence
I have seen a massive change in the business intelligence, data and analytics tools our customers are buying and using over the last couple of years. The advent of data wrangling tools such as Trifacta, open-source analytics tools such as R and visual exploration...
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