Visualizing Success: Business Intelligence Analytics in Action

Your choice comes down to your organization’s size and budget, what features are must-haves vs. mere nice-to-haves, and how much experience your team already has with data analysis. Like SAS Viya, IBM Cognos Analytics is an excellent tool for automatically generating powerful and digestible data visualizations. And yes, I know—there are other tools that also do AI really well, like Zoho Analytics, but IBM wins the medal due to its more advanced BI-specific AI functionalities. Business intelligence (BI) software uses APIs, automation, AI, and other tools to simplify the process of data compilation, organization, analysis, and visualization. Analysts use available…Continue Reading

Visualizing Data with Business Analysis Tools: Case Studies

So many project managers that are executing at a rather high level are doing business analysis work. It might be strategic business analysis work in terms of how do these systems and projects fit together, or it might be like, what are the requirements we need to implement to make this project successful? If they don’t have a BA on their team and their business stakeholders aren’t great at requirements, often the PM will pull in that responsibility as well. While I knew the roles were distinct, I found myself struggling to articulate their differences. One of the most important…Continue Reading