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...

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...

I've written a number of posts now on the next generation of Demand Signal Repositories. DSRs are the specialized database and report...

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...

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...

I'll be speaking next week at the Supply Chain Management Conference at the University of Arkansas on how data-visualization enables act...

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...

It's been quite a while, just over 12 months in fact since my last blog post.  In that time, I've been hard at work developing analy...

In this blog I try to present analytic material for a non-analytic audience.  I focus on point of sale and supply chain analytics: it's...

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...

Excel is a great tool and I use it a lot.  It's available on almost every business user's desktop and it's highly extensible (...

10 resolutions for Better Business Analytics Firstly - thank you Santa for reading my Christmas list . I love the T-shirt -  "Stati...