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Business Intelligence and Analytics is a dynamic space with rapidly changing end user needs, evolving solutions and constant enhancements in underlying tools and technologies. More often than not, foresight helps in keeping you ready and prepared for the future data analytics trends and developments in the world of BI and [...]
Hitachi Vantara launched Pentaho 8.0 in the recently concluded Pentaho World 2017. We at GrayMatter, as pioneers in Pentaho from 2006, view this as a breakthrough in the analytics world particularly with respect to Big Data Insights. GrayMatter has proven expertise of delivering remarkable ROI on Big Data Analytics engagements to global [...]
GrayMatter's experts address customers’ Pentaho Reporting related needs and challenges on a daily basis. Starting from data integration using Pentaho Data Integration to dashboarding using dashboard designer, reporting using report designer, best-in-class custom components, we have done it all for 200+ projects around the globe. I am going to focus on [...]
They say that you can’t have your cake and eat it too! Well that holds good for most things around us. Take for instance, productivity, profitability and service quality in any resource intensive business using real-time analytics. Wouldn’t it truly be a magic triangle if an optimal balance were to be achieved on all three [...]
Manufacturing Analytics is a vast subject matter and the discussions around the same can be really detailed and absorbing. My mind goes back to an engagement revolving around warranty cost, for a global energy management specialist. This particular engagement concerned reduction of warranty claims costs by 6-10% for a yearly $400M warranty spend. Talking about the [...]
Near Line Storage (NLS) is a concept that describes intermediate type of data storage that represents a compromise between online and offline storage used for data archiving which is rarely used to access. The near line data is stored in compressed form with fewer backups and offers reduction in costs for the data that [...]
Executives’ demand for compelling visualization, intuitive analyses and engaging insights with a seamless user experience necessitates the need for BI custom add-ons or custom components. GrayMatter’s SAP Design Studio custom component development address various BI needs like KPI indicators, metrics comparison, collaboration, rich visualization, enhanced slice & dice capability , superior UI features and [...]
Ankit Patni, Our UI/UX Expert looks at every dashboard / Design with “Good, Bad and Ugly” perspective only. In his blog he explains about fundamental requirements in any given dashboard. He says “Good Dashboard design is important to increase user adaptation and also to prioritize the way information is being presented to the users. But [...]
Clustering Pentaho means that 2 or more instances of pentaho business analytics share a common repository. Pentaho 5.0.X now uses the Jackrabbit Content Repository (JCR) for the BA Repository. Pentaho stores content about reports that you create, examples we provide, report scheduling data, and audit data in the BA Repository. The BA Repository resides on [...]
What are the key elements an analytics company must possess to be differentiated competitively, in the market? Needless to say, they need to be able to cater to end-to-end analytics. Be it simple reporting or intuitive analytics, through interactive dashboards or all sorts of analysis of OLAP nature i.e. pivoting, drill-downs, drill-through, drill-ups, slice-and-dice analysis [...]
