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Good Enough to Great: A Quick Guide for Better Data Visualizations

In today’s marketplace, successful decision-making has everything to do with turning data insights into action. And because the goal of data visualization is impact, not numbers, here are five ways...

  • Business Dashboards
  • Enterprise Adoption
  • IT & Enterprise
  • New Role of IT

10 Best Practices for Building Effective Dashboards

A well-designed dashboard is a powerful launch point for data-driven conversations. Armed with the same collection of information, your business makes faster decisions based on a single source of...

  • Business Intelligence

Whitepaper - BARC Score Data Discovery

BARC SCORE Data Discovery takes a close look at Data Preparation, Visual Analysis, and Guided Advanced Analytics software for Business Analysts The market for software supporting data discovery,...

  • New Role of IT

Four Ways Government Agencies Can Deliver Better Results

With the pressure mounting to deliver more with less, public sector leaders are turning to data to improve outcomes for the people they serve. And because there is so much data, government...

  • Advanced Analytics
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Discovery
  • Data Visualization
  • Working with Data

Define Analytics: The changing role of BI’s favorite catch-all term

Learn about the evolving role analytics plays in organizations and businesses worldwide. Why has analytics persisted as an industry buzzword? What makes visual data analysis the gold standard for...

  • Cloud

How data gravity is pulling your analytics to the cloud

Data and applications used to be hosted locally, on organizations’ own premises. But a cloud computing revolution has changed this default. Data is moving to the cloud, and data gravity is changing...

  • Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI) Trend Monitor 2017 - BARC Study

The IT industry and the world at large have always been subject to technology and business trends, sometimes undergoing major changes, such as the development of the personal computer, client/server...

  • Business Intelligence

2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics

One glance. That’s all it takes to identify outliers and clusters. The difference is clear. That's visual analytics. For us, business intelligence is not just a market—it's a mission. Our only...

  • IT & Enterprise

Deploying Tableau across your organization: Which product is right for you?

Data in the hands of a few can be useful. Trusted data in the hands of the many, working in collaboration with each other, can transform an entire organization. Tableau’s platform provides a secure...

  • Business Intelligence
  • Cloud

Whitepaper - BARC Cloud Trends 2017

BARC Research Study 2017 BI and data management in the cloud: current issues and trends The Business Application Research Center (BARC) and Eckerson Group have joined forces to publish a study...