If you believe the hype, data-driven decision-making is taking over businesses. As they try to speed up decisions, whether it’s adjusting supply chains or deciding which product lines to focus on, it’s clear that intuition is nothing with...

In 1975, The Outlaws released their debut album, best known for the hit, “There Goes Another Love Song.” When we first started talking about the business intelligence (BI) product we wanted to bring to market, I felt like people had a sim...

There’s a lot of talk about point-and-click BI. Some companies claim to make SQL the lingua franca of business (anyone can code!). And others still are talking about AI, ML and the death of SQL. At bipp, we certainly are looking ahead to the fu...

A common gripe we hear among business intelligence (BI) analysts is they don’t like the briefs they receive from business users. Business users don’t seem to fully understand how BI tools work. Part of the problem is that BI is such a vas...

Data visualization is a key component of any business intelligence platform. Visualizations depict data in formats such as tables, grid charts and maps. This helps business users understand what the data says, so they can use it to make informed day-...

There’s a huge shortage of qualified business analysts, so many organizations are looking for ways to help business users to execute queries on their own. Even in companies that are fully staffed with analysts, business users want to answer que...

A search on LinkedIn for ‘advanced analytics’ brings up 1,050,000 professional profiles (as of January 2021). The same search yields over 12 million results on Google. The phrase is a hot topic for job postings and user profiles. Definiti...

The 2020s are playing out before our eyes in real time. The world is changing daily, and decisions have to happen quickly. Forward-thinking organizations can’t base course-altering moves on three-month-old data. And business users making ad hoc repor...

Data analysts strive to help their organizations solve big problems, but they struggle with the SQL tools they use to query databases. They get frustrated trying to create custom reports in an efficient way. They waste time writing the same queries o...

Welcome to the bipp beta. bipp is a new cloud BI platform, one we’ve built from the ground up for data and BI analysts like you. The platform is the brainchild of Angshuman Guha and Vishal Joshi, two ex-Microsoft, ex-Google, ex-Sears guys who came to...