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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...