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  • Data Discovery

5 Ways to Maximize Your Salesforce Data

When it comes to sales metrics, everything from your pipeline to your revenue is mission critical—so your analytics solution needs to be fast, easy and talk seamlessly with your entire data ecosystem...

  • Data Visualization
  • Social Media Analytics

4 Charts Every Social Media Manager Needs

Measuring and monitoring social media impact by simply looking at growth of followers or reach is no longer enough to be successful as a social media manager. Whether you’re evaluating your social...

  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Visualization

5 Lessons from History's Early Data Rockstars

Data visualization has a rich and exciting history. The pioneers, data rockstars in their day, developed new ways of looking at and showing data. What are the most important lessons we can learn...

  • Embedded Analytics

Embedding Analytics with Tableau

In an age where data is king, the most effective way to offer state-of-the-art business intelligence within any application is through an Embedded Analytics partnership. Not only do customers expect...

  • Governed Self-Service
  • IT & Enterprise

Four Reasons your Metadata is Broken

Metadata is more important now than ever. New technologies have enabled businesspeople who have traditionally not been analysts to work with data. The consumerization of IT means people expect...

  • Business Intelligence

The Must Do's of Marketing Dashboards

Dashboards are one of the most important and often overlooked tools for marketers today. Modern marketers need to know how to measure and share performance outcomes of their programs in real-time—...

  • Industry Analysts
  • Business Intelligence
  • Mobile

It’s Time for a User-Driven Enterprise BI Strategy

Even after doing their best for over 20 years to build centralized, scalable information architecture, Forrester surveys find that only a small percentage of organizations' data is actually converted...

  • Working with Data

A New Era of Transparency: 5 Best Practices for Open Data in Government

One of the most anticipated policies, and greatest challenges facing modern governments, is that on data transparency and efficiency. Coupled with a new era of data-driven innovation, the pressure...

  • Business Intelligence

The Road Forward - An IT Roadmap for Scaling Self-Service Reporting

In an age where data is king, the shift to self-service analytics seems threatening and even out of control for IT leaders—but it doesn’t have to be. A new implementation model, anchored by a real...

  • Data Visualization

The Power of R and Visual Analytics

Partner Advanced Statistics with Data Visualization When it comes to identifying patterns and building practical models, R is a statistical powerhouse, but sharing insights across...