Annual survey helps businesses compare BI tools
In its annual survey, the Business Application Research Center (BARC) rates 42 BI tools or packages, based on feedback from more than 2500 users.
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit a powerful and free DL framework
Raja Vasudevan looks at Cognitive Toolkit, a deep learning framework, and finds it feature-rich and efficient as well as supporting a wide variety of neural network types.
What’s the deal with Domo? A BI consultant’s view
Stellar senior consultant Steve Smith explains how New Zealand businesses can get easy access to their data plus powerful analytics tools using Domo.
Stellar becomes New Zealand’s first Domo Partner
“Domo is a complete analytics platform that is incredibly user-friendly,” says Nicholas Glanfield, General Manager at Stellar. It comes with 450 connectors for different data sources.
Microsoft Inspire: New bundles, stronger partner programme
Last week I was lucky enough to join around 16,000 others in attending the global Microsoft partners event ‘Inspire’ held in Washington DC.
New case study: Continuous Integration at Toyota
Although Continuous Integration is common in software companies, it’s rare to find it used in corporate environments for bespoke solutions intended for internal consumption.
Microsoft unveils improvements to Power BI
Whether you’re new to Power BI, or just want to learn about the latest features, the keynote video from this weeks’s Microsoft Data Insights Summit is a great start.
Making Microsoft Power BI terrific in an enterprise
Power BI is so user-friendly that enterprises may find they soon have an enormous number of datasets, reports and dashboards hosted in the cloud. Here’s how to deal with that.