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...

Current Demand Signal Repositories don't play well with others. Their data is locked away behind layers of security and you can only a...

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

My most recent post on Demand Signal Repositories bemoaned their general lack of ability to rapidly ingest new and interesting data sourc...

Over the last few months I've written a series of posts on Demand Signal Repositories.  These are the specialized database and reportin...

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...

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...

Roughly 15% of the United States population receives SNAP funding to help pay for food and beverage items.  We know that when SNAP (food sta...

If you are following lean methodologies you will have encountered the concept of inventory as waste.   It’s something you have because you c...

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...