Over the last few months I've been exploring the features I want to see in a next generation platform for point of sale analytics: It...

Under old world analytics, you move data from the DSR to your analytic server, build models, then write results (sometimes models too) bac...

You need not always build your analytic tools, sometimes you should buy in. If the chosen application does what you need that often makes g...

To handle real Analytics (see my recent post  Reporting is NOT Analytics ) you need real Analytic power. BI tools are based on the languag...

In my recent post on The right tools (structured) BIG DATA handling , I looked at using AWS Redshift to generate summaries from a large fa...

Recently, I have been working with a new-to-me BI tool that has reminded me just how much speed matters.  I'm not mentioning any names h...

This post continues my look at the Next Generation DSR .  Demand Signal Repositories collect, clean,  report-on and analyze Point of Sale da...

Today, I'm coming back a little closer to the series of promised posts on the Next Generation DSR  to look at some benchmark results for...

Last week, I posted my thoughts on how new technology enables a simpler and faster database to support your DSR applications. Next Generatio...

This post continues my look at the  Next Generation DSR .  A DSR (Demand Signal Repository) holds data, typically Point of Sale data,  and t...

CPGs have had access to Point of Sale (POS) data now for many years and many of them use a Demand Signal Repository ( DSR ) to gather, clean...

A couple of weeks ago, I ran a somewhat rough benchmark to show just how much faster large database queries can run if you use better tools....

Here's the scenario: you are a business analyst charged with providing reporting and basic analytics on more data than you know how to h...

Whether your analytic tool of choice is Excel or R or Access or SQL Server or ... whatever,  if you've worked a reasonable range of ana...

It's that time of year again: my kids have written, re-written and re-re-written their Christmas lists now so we all hope Santa will r...

What do you think is the most-used reporting tool in the world?  There are a lot of them available, at times it can be hard to move without ...

I've blogged before about the need to use the right tools to hold and manipulate data as data quantity increases ( Data Handling the Rig...

Microsoft Excel must be the most widely used analytic tool available today but, it’s not the only tool in my tool-bag and it should not ...

I've been working recently on a category management project and I'm reminded of just how essential clean, well-organized data is.  W...