by Siddhartha Gautam | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing
The typical, base-level form of access (that is, user ID/username and password) has become unsafe and outdated, especially when it comes to protecting access to high-level resources. That’s why developers have designed methods like Multi-factor Authentication...
by XTIVIA | Apr 25, 2019 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Self-Service continues to be a BI buzzword from the last five+ years. Simply put, Self-Service BI is the DIY (do it yourself) of the Reports and Analytics for end users. It is the combination of tools and processes to let the business users perform their own ad hoc...
by XTIVIA | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing
Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehouses (DW) go hand-in-hand, but with Microsoft Power BI the need for a DW has been questioned in the past few years. Because Power BI offers considerable storage, ETL, and reporting functions on top of its business intelligence...
by XTIVIA | Dec 27, 2018 | Blog, Business Intelligence
By adopting a streamlined Business Intelligence (BI) strategy, you can fully utilize your data to enhance numerous aspects of your business. Although the thought of collecting and processing the entirety of your company’s data might seem daunting, it can be an easy...
by XTIVIA | May 22, 2018 | Blog, Business Intelligence
While you have probably heard Business Intelligence, you may not know what it can do for your business. Since it’s a hot topic right now because ‘big data’ is news too, you might think it’s a new technology. The reality is that it’s been...
by XTIVIA | Feb 27, 2018 | Blog, Business Intelligence
The core of Business Intelligence is reporting. It doesn’t matter if you are building a BI solution to provide end-user what-if analysis capabilities, embracing the latest capabilities in predictive analytics, or just want to provide managers with scheduled...
by XTIVIA | Jan 10, 2018 | Blog, Business Intelligence
What is Business Intelligence? The purpose of Business Intelligence is the transformation of raw data into meaningful information which can be used to make better business decisions. Business Intelligence grew out of Decision Support systems and is all about...
by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2017 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics service that aims to be highly compatible with enterprises using other Microsoft tools like Windows, Office, OneDrive, and more. Since Power BI is cloud-based, it brings all of this capability into an online, always-on...
by Siddhartha Gautam | Jun 14, 2017 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Jasper Reports is a reporting application that is simple to use, install, manage, and deploy. Its versatility gives us an option to deploy it to a standalone server (Jasper Server) or embed it in an existing application. Since it is written in Java, the extensions...
by XTIVIA | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing
It’s been estimated that up to 60% of the effort in building a data warehouse can be spent in developing the ETL processes that are needed to copy data from source systems and transform it before loading it in to the data warehouse. Many of the ETL processes,...
