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How to Analyze and Report on your Data

Part 2 of 2 in Data Warehousing series

Every business from startup to larger established businesses needs to track details about their customers, products, sales, purchases, social media, website logs to name a few.  By extracting, manipulating and analyzing this data you can determine key metrics to help you understand more about your customers and grow your business.  In part 1 we talked about how to kick start your data warehousing with BI360 and now we need to know what to do with all this data.

Basically you can use your Data Warehouse for financial statement reporting and analysis, dashboards and data mining. I previously went through how to use BI360’s One Stop Reporting here (link to Part 5 – BI Series Nov 2013) so I will be talking more about data mining and .

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Communication is Key

I have been consulting now for over 27 years.  When I first started, verbal communication was the accepted and expected way of exchanging ideas, concerns, and complaints.  It was efficient and thus you completed your objectives in a timely manor.

Then came the 90’s and the Internet.  Email entered our world and people started exchanging ideas via email.  We still called each other to discuss issues and exchange information, but email slowly started making it’s way into how we communicate.  People felt it was more efficient; they got more done because they could work on other tasks while waiting for a response.

Then the 21’st century came and everything really started to explode…  

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