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Golf Solutions Designed at Barnham Broom Golf Club in Norfolk

 Many sports tend to be biassed towards one sex or another. For example, football is a sport dominated by men and does not become much more masculine than rugby! On the other side of the fence, netball definitely falls into the women's category. However, there are some sports that share gender gracefully, which appeal to both men and women. Reddit live streaming Golf is undoubtedly one of these sports and has no age limits. Spread across courses in the UK you will find some unlikely groups of people bound by their love for this great outdoor sport. Some will play every day, while others will only play on the weekends, perhaps as a way to relieve the stress of a difficult week at the office. No golfer tends to join a club and membership packages vary widely in price. Most golf clubs simply offer standard packages with the assumption that one size fits all and offers a bit of flexibility. However, some offer more realistic membership packages, considering how much you will be playing...

Excel Plus : From Excel to JEDOX

Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application is by far the most widely used business application on the planet. It is free (well actually not but since comes with every business PC it is perceived to be free), simple, fast, flexible and gives independence to its users. But, a big but, is that MS Excel based processes have several drawbacks : it is inconsistent and error prone, maintenance - intensive, complex and not audit proof, slow and manual to consolidate, difficult to access and collaborate, provides low data-security and there is no process control and workflow. Although these drawbacks are universal, MS Excel became the basis of complex business processes with many stakeholders and although it sits outside IT-managed systems, it holds business-critical reporting and planning and analysis. Enter the Excel hell ! Jedox is a business intelligence and coorporate performance management platform positioning itself as EXCELPLUS. Excel plus means that JEDOX removes Excel’s drawbac...

Tableau 9.0 release date and overview

Tableau Software has finally released the new version of its benchmark setting data visualization and business intelligence platform, Tableau 9.0 today on April 7th 2015. The new version comes with an entirely new experience for Tableau Server, significant performance improvements, new data preparation features, drag-and-drop analytics, updates to mapping and much more. Tableau 8 has been a phenomenal success[1] for data visualization and business intelligence platform provider Tableau Software after the release of Tableau 8.3, everybody was waiting for the new version : Tableau 9.  Tableau 9 release date  is postponed a few times. In Tableau Conference 2013, the expectation was that Tableau 8.1 would be released in fall 2013, Tableau 8.2 in winter 2014 and Tableau 9.0 later in 2014. Tableau 9.0 release date is later pushed to Q1 2015 and in March one more time to April 2015. But this is a release worth waiting. There are many significant improvements in Tableau 9.0 over Table...

What is JEDOX?

Jedox is a Self Service Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management platform developed by Jedox AG based in Freiburg im Breisgau/Germany. With a modular structure, JEDOX platform uses Microsoft Excel as its user interface on the one hand and a Jedox-specific spreadsheet on the other, both of which can be used in all common browsers. Jedox is unique in a sense that while most business intelligence solutions try to replace MS Excel based analysis and planning process entirely with their platform (and usually fails to do so because at one point things are exported to Excel), Jedox puts the powerful MS Excel sheet in the heart of their solution. By doing this they provide a familiar interface to users while enhancing business intelligence capabilities far beyond MS Excel. This is actually what JEDOX offers in a nutshell : Excel Plus. The modular architecture of JEDOX has a cell-oriented, multi-dimensional in-memory OLAP server that has been especially designed for...

Jedox 5.1 Data-driven Modelling

Since version 5.1, European business intelligence (BI) software provider Jedox offers a powerful data-driven modeling feature, Jedox users can create an entire OLAP model with existing data at the click of a button, with the model immediately available for analysis, reporting and planning tasks. This new Jedox 5.1 data-driven modeling feature uniquely combines the content depth of classic OLAP tools and the simplicity of state-of-the-art data discovery software. How data driven modelling works? First, you start with your existing data in Excel. With one click, you create a Jedox in-memory cube. You can now immediately report, plan and collaborate across your organization. This works by automatically generating a sophisticated load (ETL) script to read your data from Excel. The ETL you can edit, extend, and schedule in order to refresh your data as often as you need. The result is you can instantly take any Excel data and immediately use this live through Jedox anywhere. ...

Qlik Sense vs QlikView

Qlik has finally released its long awaited Qlik Sense platform on 17th September 2014. Qlik Sense is a next-generation self-service data visualization application from Qlik (see more here What is Qlik Sense? ). According to Qlik, Qlik Sense is built on the QIX Associative Data Indexing engine , the second generation of Qlik’s proven and patented engine technology. It has some dramatic changes compared to QlikView , such as drag-and-drop visualization, server side dashboard development and distribution, a token based pricing ( Qlik Sense pricing ), overhauled data extraction, integrated maps, new charts, etc. Is Qlik Sense new QlikView or QlikView 12? The answer is no. Qlik started the project as QlikView,Next which was implying that the next product will be the new version of QlikView which is on version 11 released in 2011. But Qlik has changed the name to Qlik Sense. It makes sense because this product is different. Not entirely but different. Conceptually, Qlik Sense and QlikVie...

What is Qlik Sense?

Qlik Sense is a next-generation self-service data visualization application from Qlik, a leading data discovery platform provider. Launched on September 17th 2014 , Qlik Sense empowers everyone to easily create a range of flexible, interactive visualizations that drive exploration and discovery through intuition. Qlik Sense is a new product and is not QlikView 12 . So now basically Qlik offers two BI platforms: Qlik Sense and QlikView. You can read more about the difference between Qlik Sense and Qlik View : Qlik Sense vs Qlik View . Qlik Sense is built on the QIX Associative Data Indexing engine , the second generation of Qlik’s proven and patented engine technology. Associative Data Indexing allows people to explore data relationships across many sources that would otherwise be hidden in hierarchical or query-based approaches. Qlik Sense drives faster time to insight with intuitive exploration, smart search, and smart visualizations. It broadens knowledge sharing with data storytell...

Qlik Sense Pricing

Qlik has launched its long awaited product named Qlik Sense. Composed of Qlik Sense, a governed, server-based data visualization and discovery application, and Qlik Sense Desktop, a free Windows desktop self-service data visualization application, the new suite enables server side BI development and distribution, drag-and-drop visualization, smart search and data storytelling. Qlik Sense pricing is also completely overhauled. The licensing in Qlik Sense (Server) is based on tokens, which are used to allocate access passes that allow users to access Qlik Sense. Token-based licensing model of Qlik Sense is to provide greater flexibility for license management. Qlik Sense tokens can be allocated to named users, or leveraged across multiple login sessions for one or more users. With the token-based licensing model, customers can deploy multiple servers, across multiple geographies, to optimize for performance and availability without paying any additional costs. Qlik Sense pric...

Qlik launced full Qlik Sense Product

The wait is over. Qlik, one of the leading data discovery solution provider, has launched Qlik Sense, its device-independent, self-service visualization and discovery product engineered for enterprise-class governance and performance. Qlik Sense product suite is composed of Qlik Sense , a governed, server-based data visualization and discovery application and Qlik Sense Desktop , free Windows desktop self-service data visualization application. Here is the full press release from Qlik : Qlik , a leader in data discovery, today introduced general availability of Qlik Sense , the first device-independent, self-service visualization and discovery product engineered for enterprise-class governance and performance.  Built on a modern architecture and powered by the patented, industry-proven Qlik data indexing engine, Qlik Sense gives users the unrestricted ability to create personalized data analyses and explore the relationships that exist in data to reveal connections i...

Swiss Health and Accident Insurer Helsana choses QlikView

Helsana Group, a leading health and accident insurer in Switzerland, will use uses QlikView Business Intelligence platform to consolidate and analyze data from Teradata, Microsoft and Oracle data warehouses. QlikView will enable Helsana users to perform quick and easy data analysis in the areas of sales, management control and information management. Helsana required a dynamic analysis tool which is alternative to their existing and cumbersome reporting. Traditional business intelligence solutions are too complex and creates a lot of extra work for the IT department so the company turned to an easy to use and flexible QlikView. QlikView enables business users to assemble data from multiple sources, explore it, make discoveries, and uncover insights that enable them to solve business problems in new ways. QlikView works the way the mind works. Users conduct searches and interact with dynamic dashboards and analytics from any device. They ask and answer streams of question...

What is Tableau Project Elastic?

Project Elastic is the code name for a new tablet-based product by Tableau Software which was first announced in Tableau Conference 2014 . Tableau Elastic Technology is designed specifically with mobile users in mind and aims to help users to ask questions to their data using just their two fingers and making fairly complicated queries, are just a tap, swipe, scroll or pinch away. Tableau's VP of Mobile, Dave Story, has demonstrated the product in annual Tableau customer conference. What we can see up to now is that Tableau Software is basically building a new iPad app (or tablet app). In the presentation, Dave Story took an email attachment (a data file listing sales information about a local sandwich shop) and opened it in the Tableau Elastic app. The app immediately opens with a view of a chart showing categories of products sold at the shop. As other Tableau user interfaces, Elastic is also "drag-and-drop" based. With taps, swipes and scrolls, you can easily change...

Transport data analytics collaboration of ST Electronics and IBM Singapore

Singapore Technologies Electronics (ST Electronics) and IBM Singapore has announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding  to collaborate on transport data analytics and to exchange technical information about products and capabilities, specifically on the use of smart analytics for urban mobility. With transport data analytics, governments and companies can better understand the commuting patterns and can optimize the traffic and transportation systems. But since the input data for the transport analytics would be huge and the mathematical foundation of the problem is very complex, powerful platforms as well as expert skills are needed to utilize the analytics. "IBM is working with organisations around the world to make cities smarter with data driven solutions to attain new levels of insight and efficiency through analytics" said Janet Ang, Managing Director, IBM Singapore. "Our collaboration with ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) leverages on IBM’s glob...

What is new in Tableau 8.2 Release

Tableau 8.2 was released on June 18, 2014 and Tableau 8.2 Tour stop in Singapore was held on Wednesday July 23, 2014. The new release is already in 8.2.2 (released in August 21) and contains a lot of exiting features. The release includes the first-ever Mac OS version of Tableau Desktop, Story Points for interactive, data-driven storytelling, a more visual connection experience with data previews and improved experience in defining data table joins, and updated maps, in addition to enhancements to simplify administration and support of Tableau Server. Here is a list of major new features in Tableau 8.2. Tableau Desktop on the Mac The revolutionary technology of Tableau Desktop now runs natively on the Mac. It’s the full analytics package, built to support high-resolution Retina displays, Mac-specific controls, and also all of your existing Tableau workbooks. Story Points One of the most anticipated features of Tableau 8.2, Story Telling lets you create compelling, interactive, data...

Insurance Dashboard demo by QlikView Business Intelligence Platform

Insurance data analysis  can help all types of insurance firms (including property & casualty, life, health, etc) to improve profitability across the board. But to make it happen, insurance companies also need to have the right tool. This rare Insurance data analysis dashboard ( Insurance dashboard in short) is a business and profitability management application for the insurance industry developed on powerful QlikView Business Intelligence reporting platform. The application covers a range of business areas, and presents a compelling story for how a powerful Business Discovery tool can help companies improve profitability across the board. This application contains the transaction level details of insurance claims and policies. The sample data is on customers, policies, and claims from a midsize insurance carrier. The dashboard allows its users to analyze this year’s performance based on the number of claims and policies as well as loss ratio. Customer mix is captured using ...

Centralized QlikView Security Management Module - Click2Manage

QlikView is a fantastic business intelligence platform but it does have some limitations when it comes to security management. Although the application is quite secure (it is used in a lot of banks where security is extremely important) but setting up security is cumbersome. QlikView platform by default lacks a single, easy manageable and scalable security module. The built-in security framework is highly manual and script based to setup. Although it is manageable for 50-100 users, security management becomes a real burden for a few hundred to few thousand users. In addition to manageability issues, QlikView default security framework lacks the following: Role based security setup assignment – Every users security configuration is done separately even a large group of users share the same security configuration where role based security assignment is crucial. GUI based security configuration – Security configuration in QlikView is script based. Although QlikView Publisher (an...

What is QlikView? QlikView Overview

QlikView is the world’s first associative, in-memory Business Discovery platform which delivers true self-service BI that empowers business users by driving innovative decision-making. QlikView enables business users to assemble data from multiple sources, explore it, make discoveries, and uncover insights that enable them to solve business problems in new ways. QlikView works the way the mind works. Users conduct searches and interact with dynamic dashboards and analytics from any device. They ask and answer streams of questions on their own and in groups and teams. They forge new paths to insight and decision. QlikView is a single product that has multiple components for use by people in various roles: business users, business analysts / BI application developers, and IT professionals. QlikView simplifies analysis for everyone. Qlik’s patented technology allows instant, in memory, manipulation of massive datasets on low cost hardware, allowing affordable widespread deployment of soph...

Analyzing Google Analytics data in Tableau

Google Analytics is the  most widely used website statistics service. It provides a great online platform to analyze your web site traffic. Although it provides powerful charts, reports and dashboards to analyze data, if you have needed to use it professionally, you hit its limitations frequently and do the following : Export the Google Analytics data to Excel and try to analyze it there. This manual and tedious process is always needed if you are trying to merge Google Analytics data and some other data in your analysis. We know that Tableau provides a great data visualization tool and we could leverage its power to analyze Google Analytics data. But to bring the data into Tableau was tedious; you should export it first (to Excel manually or by using Google Analytics API and lots of scripting). Not anymore! With Tableau version 8 onwards, Tableau Software has released Google Analytics connector which makes it quite easy to pull in your Google Analytics data into Tableau. This do...