Leading companies are doing more than just collecting and storing data in large quantities--they're now driving their competitive strategies based on data-driven insights. And achieving impressive results: Identifying the most profitable customers, accelerating product innovation, optimizing supply chains and pricing, and leveraging the true drivers of financial performance. The secret weapon? Analytics--sophisticated quantitative and statistical...

"The intensified used of data based on analytical models to control digitalized operational business processes in an intelligent way is a game changer that continuously disrupts more and more markets. This book exemplifies this development and shows the latest tools and advances in this field Business Analytics for Managers offers real-world guidance for organizations looking to leverage their data into a competitive advantage. This new second edition...

Business-Intelligence-Lösungen sind für Unternehmen unabdingbar, um Datenmengen in vertretbarer Zeit zu analysieren und daraus resultierend Entscheidungen zu treffen.Die Autoren bieten einen praxisnahen Überblick über Visual Business Analytics mit seinen drei Teilgebieten: Information Design, Visual Business Intelligence und Visual Analytics. Sie zeigen den Weg, wie aus Daten über das Mittel der Visualisierung für den Empfänger entscheidungsrelevante...

Agile may be the best-kept management secret on the planet and if you want a quick-start introduction, then Agile NOW is essential reading as it is a quick-read, accessible and easy to dip into - yet covers all the essential theory and provides practical advice. Agile is a different way of thinking that's steeped in common sense and produces immediate results. It will help you design better products, get faster results, cut down costs, and keep improving...

This book will expand your ability to deliver meaningful, performant solutions to your organization. You'll learn how to use an analytical engine for decision making and business analytics. With the help of this practical guide, you'll also be able to work confidently with data and analytics.

"Drive better, faster, more informed decision making across your organization using the expert tips and best practices featured in this hands-on guide. Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2016, Fourth Edition, shows, step-by-step, how to distribute high-performance, custom analytics to users enterprise-wide. Discover how to build BI Semantic Models, create data marts and OLAP cubes, write MDX and DAX scripts, and share insights...

Expert tabular modeling techniques for building and deploying cutting-edge business analytical reporting solutions About This Book Build and deploy Tabular Model projects from relational data sources Leverage DAX and create high-performing calculated fields and measures Create ad-hoc reports based on a Tabular Model solution Useful tips to monitor and optimize your tabular solutions Who This Book Is For This book is for SQL BI professionals and Architects...

This book looks at strategies to help companies become more intelligent, connected, and agile. It discusses how companies can define and measure high-impact outcomes and use effectively analytics technology to achieve them. It also looks at the technology needed to implement the analytics necessary to achieve high-impact outcomes-from both analytics tool and technical infrastructure perspective. Also discussed are ancillary, but critical, topics such...