Analytics
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...
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...
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...
How to Choose the Right BI Tool
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...
Survey Results Say We're Singing the Right Tune
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...
A Case for a Data Modeling Language (and Better Wheels)
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...