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Using Embedded Analytics to Create Data Driven Companies
In business intelligence, it is becoming increasingly easy to play around with data. Visual data models and visual data explorers are putting powerful tools in the hands of everyone in an enterprise. This approach is enabling data-driven enterprises ...
How BI and ML Are Driving Digital Transformation
If tech industry analyst firm Gartner is to be believed, machine learning has just passed the peak of inflated expectations and is currently dwelling in the trough of disillusionment. This is make-or-break time, as “Interest wanes as experiments and ...
The Problematic History of the Cloud, BI, and Why Data Engineers Will Save the World
bipp - like many companies - wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for cloud computing. It gives us agility, enables scale, lowers costs…yet the cloud as we know it today is a relatively new concept. We take Zoom and Netflix for granted, but back (back!) in th...
Top Five BI, Data and Analytics Predictions for 2022
At bipp, we like talking about data. A lot. And that’s not surprising, considering what we do for a living. The data conversation continues to evolve as we head into a new year. And another orbit around the Sun seems as good a time as any to gaze int...
The Art and Science of Data Modeling
The recent history of technology in 30 words or less: Approaches needed to solve old and new problems; IT departments and vendors try to do more with fewer resources; and one, undeniable reality: every company is a data company.
And at the heart of a...
Data Models Give Companies the Good Oil for Data Governance
When mathematician Clive Humby coined the phrase, “Data is the new oil”, he emphasized the value of raw data as an incredibly valuable asset. But, like oil, there’s an underlying issue with data. While oil has undoubtedly contributed to the significa...
How bipp Used Modern Software Architecture to Build a Better BI Platform
Picasso taught me everything I know about software. Well, almost. You see, he once said, ‘Everything you can imagine is real.’ The prolific painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist dedicated himself to modernism, symbolism, surrealism, and co-fo...
bipp Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance – The Gold Standard for Data Security
As a part of our continued commitment to customers’ data security, I am proud to announce that bipp has recently completed the SOC 2 Type 2 audit. This audit report confirms we have internal controls designed and implemented to meet the securit...
Why bipp is a Good Alternative to Chartio
In February, Chartio announced it had been acquired by Atlassian, with a plan to add data visualization to Jira. Blog posts celebrated with SQL puns: JOIN teams ON data anyone? Journalists reported without emotion, and Twitterers tweeted muted congra...
Four Mystical Insights from Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
For the uninitiated, Gartner’s Magic Quadrants are market research reports published by IT consulting firm Gartner. They use qualitative research to rank and rate technology vendors and help buyers understand the competitive landscape.
First of...