BI & REPORTING
Up And Running With Row-Level Security In Power BI
It has quickly become the norm for companies to maximize their data potential by using data in their everyday business processes. And as your data grows and users increase, the need for limiting data to particular individuals or a group of individuals most likely...
Syntelli Solutions’ Data Team Wins Power BI’s Spotlight Featured Story of the Month
What’s better than winning the day at the Pokémon gym or capturing the ever elusive Pikachu? For Syntelli Solutions, it’s winning Power BI’s Spotlight Featured Story of the Month. Syntelli’s data scientist team – made up of Matt Winter, Jayasri Akella and Hrishikesh...
Syntelli and Spotfire: 60% Year Over Year Business Growth
Syntelli and Spotfire At Syntelli, we take great pride in our partnerships with leading companies in the Big Data Analytics space. As a TIBCO Spotfire partner, we help organizations leverage the power of their data to improve operations, performance and overall...
4 Reasons For Using RapidMiner In Predictive Analytics
RapidMiner is one of a growing list of open source big data analytics platforms. Yes, the product list in this niche is getting long, and it can be a bit difficult to remember which product does what. But, RapidMiner is not a me-too product. Instead, it’s a...
Our First Look At Spotfire 7.5
TIBCO recently released the latest version of its business intelligence software – Spotfire 7.5 . With it, come important updates that bring us Data Source Connectors and updates to TIBCO Spotfire Server. Below we take a first look at what's new in Spotfire 7.5. To...
Tweet-Down To Super Bowl 50 Data Viz
[divider] Because Charlotte's NFL team is in this year's Super Bowl 50, our team of data wizards decided to collect tweets for sentiment analysis for the two teams: The Panthers and The Broncos. The Super Bowl 50 data viz was created by two of our data wizards - Jaya...
Reshaping Data For Tableau Optimization
Reshaping Data For Tableau With A Flat File Fix In 5 Steps Working with survey data to play nicely with Tableau can be a challenge as Tableau (as well as most other data visualization tools) is structured to work most optimally with tall data sets. It can be the case...
Top 7 BI Trends for Information Managers in 2016
As soon as the snow flies and holiday bells tinkle, we know that it’s time to think about BI and data analytics trends that will change how companies do business. Here are some views, the closest thing to a consensus that we could find: Rapid evolution and strong...
Return to BI without Regret: Apache Kylin Enters the Field
It’s human nature—folks want better performance but want to keep familiar tools and procedures they feel comfortable with. That’s the story of Apache™ Kylin™, a new Big Data analytics app that’s moved from incubator to top-level project status.[1] Apache Kylin...
Deep Dive Into Big Data Analytics: Connecting TIBCO Spotfire to a Kerberos-Secured Cluster
Yes, advanced Big Data analytics tools are powerful. But connecting and making them work together can challenge your patience and technical ability. Not long ago, Syntelli data engineers helped a client set up TIBCO™ Spotfire® Server to authenticate database...
Can Spotfire Cycle Through Different Tabs?
"Can Spotfire cycle through different tabs?" is a question I've heard numerous times before, and I admit that I have always answered it with a discouraged "No". However, during one engagement with a customer, I no longer wanted to say "No" and said "Let's see". The...
5 Companies Leveraging Customer Analytics For Growth
As we noted in an earlier post, customer analytics can play a big role in making marketing efforts more efficient and less expensive. Companies of all sizes are using it to guide their sales and marketing efforts. Although customer analytics is still a new method,...
Financial Complainers – Tableau Data Viz of The Day
At Syntelli, along with celebrating the success of our customers, we love to celebrate our data wizards! Check out the data visualization below, created by our Tableau expert, Matt Winter. This visualization was also selected as the data Viz of the Day by Tableau...
Customer Analytics: It’s Not Just for Data Scientists Anymore
Business users now have access to the knowledge, methods and easy-to-use tools that that help their company stay competitive. Customer analytics is a good example. Unlike many types of data analysis, customer analytics focuses on customer requirements and...
Data Quality vs Data Quantity
I Tweeted a question “Though equally critical which one will you prioritize, data quality or data quantity?” It got a lot of great comments and I am summarizing what Jay, Ben, Al and Garima and others said with my own take on data quality. Follow us on twitter at...
Remote Data Analytics Ready for Use in Science
Remote data analysis and visualization is a new trend in data analytics. It’s come about with the easy availability and use of high-performance computing and big data analytics tools such as MapR™ and Apache Drill®, cloud computing and increasingly powerful graphics...
Insurance Analytics Makes An Impact
Definitely. Although the insurance industry has been slow to adopt big data analytics (BDA) methods, early user evidence shows that the rewards for using it are substantial. For example companies are using BDA to: Become more competitive. As insurance becomes a...
Creating Lollipop Charts and Filtering on Parameter Controls in Tableau
Data Visualization Just Got Sweeter When creating data visualizations in Tableau, twenty-four different charts, graphs, tables, plots and maps are provided to help you see and understand your data. One of those visualizations is a bar chart. Bar charts are one of the...
Why Don’t Oil and Gas Companies Use Big Data Analytics (More)?
In earlier posts, we’ve described the benefits big data analytics deliver to oil and gas companies. So, you can imagine our surprise when we read how little oil and gas companies use big data for decision making. Large O&G Companies: Strong Use in Ops, but not in...
Big Data Analytics for Oil and Gas: Finding Opportunities for Success
Crunching numbers and finding opportunities in the oil patch Megabytes, terabytes, and now, petabytes. These giant leaps in data use represent a huge management headache. And a huge business opportunity for companies wanting to improve their competitive advantage....
