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Scorecards – Not Just for Tracking Your Golf Score

May 14, 2015 Jim Brogden Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Keeping a scorecard isn’t just for weekend golfers or cricket aficionados; it’s also for tracking results in business. Keeping score, or grading performance, can be reviewed at a very high level for executive analysis or at a much more granular and detailed level for analysts and department managers. But regardless of the role, the primary object is the same — monitor and manage KPIs to make the most strategic and tactical decisions for the organization based on their findings.

Empowering Self-Service Analysis with SAP’s BI Tools

April 15, 2015 Jim Brogden Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Removing the technical complexity from report creation and data analysis is one of the leading tenets for business users when it comes to accessing data. For nontechnical professionals, a degree in computer science along with extensive knowledge in SQL is no longer a requirement in today’s BI landscape. That work can be left for the data scientists and BI/DW team. But for actual decision makers and their staff, retrieving information from the data warehouse (running queries and building reports) should be intuitive and an extension of their business knowledge.