Being in the data analytics business for several years now, we’ve talked to a lot of companies.  Most organizations, regardless of their size, generate a deluge of data every day.  Data that they need to make critical decisions about their business that they struggle to access, for various reasons.  So, a lot of the companies we speak to often need a data analytics solution and they don’t even know it yet.  This leads to the...

In working to meet the analytics needs of JD Edwards (JDE) customers, NewIntelligence discovered some common pains these businesses were experiencing.  The framework provided by Oracle’s JDE (SQL Server, Oracle or AS/400) is typically unable to provide user-friendly reporting. As a result, users spend a significant amount of time creating reports in Microsoft Access and Excel. Subsequently, management of these companies has difficulty...

In working to meet the analytics needs of SAP Business One (SAP B1) customers, NewIntelligence discovered some common pains these businesses were experiencing.  The framework provided by SAP B1 (SQL Server version of SAP B1 8.8 and above) is typically unable to provide user-friendly reporting. As a result, users spend a significant amount of time creating reports in Microsoft Access and Excel. Subsequently, management of these...

Business Intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) are separate entities serving distinct functions in organizations. The data warehouse, representing the enterprise information architecture, serving to achieve a “single version of the truth”, is still necessary today to support the user-facing BI system in the DW/BI solution.  Perhaps once operational systems can be completely standardized, reduced to simply transactional data...