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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...

What is Tableau Drive?

With skyrocketing revenues and number of 100K USD deals (a gauge showing enterprise adaptation of a business software), Tableau is getting fast into enterprise-wide BI deployment. As the emphasis on "Tableau for Enterprise" was significantly higher in this years Tableau Customer Conference (September 2014), Tableau Software has also released Tableau Drive, a  methodology for scaling out self-service analytics. So what is Tableau Drive? This is a freely available methodology relying on iterative, agile methods that are faster and more effective than traditional long-cycle deployment. A cornerstone of this approach is a new model of a partnership between business and IT. In Drive methodology, IT owns the “Center of Operations” and business owns analytics and the “Center of Evangelism”. Tableau Software released the methodology ahead of Tableau 9.0 which is expected in the first quarter of 2015. Tableau 9.0 is expected to have a lot of improvements in scalability some ...

Tableau ready for Enterprise BI

Tableau , one of the most popular BI tools in the market today, is truly an amazing and comprehensive platform. Yet, many still think that Tableau just an eye candy toy tool, good for making pretty pictures but not for a serious, enterprise BI level platform. This is absolutely not true (if this was true, Tableau would not be in the leaders quadrant of Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2014 ). Tableau offers tremendous efficiency, productivity, flexibility, performance and cost savings. Some discovers this accidentally, they bring Tableau in the project as their personal tool to understand data and then Tableau's highly viral nature carries it into the hearth of enterprise BI. Some innovative project teams head starts enterprise BI with Tableau and usually awarded successful implementations ("usually" because some teams will always have the ability to screw up projects even with great tools). You can see this in numbers. In Q2 2014, there we...

QlikView Training in Singapore

QlikView is one of the most popular and powerful business intelligence platform in the market today. QlikView's distruptive technology makes it a key player in business intelligence industry. With its flexible and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both developers and business users. Qlik (the company behind QlikView) provides two basic courses for those who wish to learn QlikView : QlikView Designer Training courses for business users and QlikView Developer Training for advanced developers. QlikView Designer course is 2 days and QlikView Developer Training is 3 days. Those who wish to take 3 days developer training needs to take the 2 days designer training. These two courses are what you can find when you take training from Qlik or some partners of Qlik. But there are alternatives. There is for example a QlikView 11 for Developers material, which covers a more hands-on approach then the standard training. In this course, some powerful and co...

Data Visualization for Shipping Industry

This powerful white boarding and demo of a Revenue and Profit Analysis of a shipping company is a rare gem which shows how a powerful data visualization plarform (Tableau in this case) can help companies to analyze their data and dig deep into "why"s. The video is prepared by a Tableau customer in Indonesia, a leading Shipping and Shipyard Company named PT Usda Seroja Jaya, to introduce their new data visualization platform, Tableau, to their users. The video starts with a white boarding presentation to illustrate how data analytics can help the company to improve decision making process. The second half of the video is a detailed Tableau demo, a rare data analytics demo for shipping industry. The Tableau demo is also a nice self-service BI presentation for this powerful application. Tableau is business intelligence software that allows anyone to connect to data in a few clicks, then visualize and create interactive, sharable dashboards with a few more. It's easy enough t...

KMS has been voted and endorsed as the 2014 Top vendor of BI Information Delivery & Analytics

Singapore, October 8th 2014 – Singapore based Business Intelligence Solutions Provider Knowledge Management Solutions Pte. Ltd. ( KMS ) has announced today that it has been voted and endorsed as the 2014 Top vendor of BI Information Delivery & Analytics by CXO Honour Singapore . Over 700 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) across Singapore were invited to take part in an unbiased online survey with CIOs naming their preferred Vendors in selected segments and categories over the full technology landscape. The award came as Knowledge Management Solutions was preparing to celebrate its 10th year in Business Intelligence in December 2014. The company, which started as a vendor specific BI solution provider successfully turned itself into a BI Information Delivery and Analytics Solutions Provider in the previous years, offering a decade old experience in BI on some of the best platforms in the market today, QlikView, Tableau and Jedox. KMS has received the award at by CXO Honour Singapo...

Tableau, Qlikview, TIBCO, SAS, and Oracle gets best business intelligence ratings

Tableau Desktop has been rated as the best business intelligence platform by business software reviews site G2 Crowd users.  Tableau, the long time category winner, was followed by QlikView, TIBCO Spotfire, SAS BI and Oracle BI. The Grid for Business Intelligence by G2 Crowd rates and profiles business intelligence products. Products shown on the Grid for Business Intelligence have received a minimum of 10 reviews in data gathered by September 19th, 2014. Products are ranked by customer satisfaction (based on user reviews) and market presence (based on market share, vendor size, and social impact) and placed into four categories on the Grid : Leaders, Contenders, Niche and High Performers. Leaders offer Business Intelligence products that are rated highly by G2 Crowd users and have substantial scale, market share, and global support and service resources. According to G2 Crowd Grid for Business Intelligence, Tableau Desktop, QlikView, TIBCO Sportfire, SAS BI and Oracle BI we...

Asset Management Dashboard Demo by QlikView Business Intelligence Platform

Asset Under Management analysis is an important part of any financial institution in asset management, private banking and wealth management business. The data can be quite huge and data from many different sources need to be combined to get the big picture. Unfortunately, this process is quite manual in many organizations where plain old MS Excel is used  to perform analysis with usually poor results. We have seen that a powerful business intelligence platform can be leveraged for wealth management, asset management and private banking institutions to increase analyis productivity greatly. But what is developed is usually not public (even dashboard layouts are protected) so you can not see a lot of nice asset management business intelligence dashboards. This rare Asset Management demo provides an analysis of assets under management by various dimensions such as asset class, investor, fund type and region. Users can look up funds and their performance and analyze fund details. The...

Retailer POS Data Analysis Dashboard by QlikView Business Intelligence Platform

Retailer POS Data Analysis Dashboard demo is designed to give visibility into the Retail environment for Consumer Products companies. The source of data is the Retailer who makes information available from their store EPOS and depot systems to the Consumer Goods company. This demo gives any retailers a picture of product stock levels in store, depot and in transit, as well as sales analysis. The app supports you in you efforts to deliver improved product availability through allowing your organization to reduce out-of-stocks and lost sales potential, as well as identifying potential alternative sources of replenishment. The POS Data Analysis is developed on powerful QlikView Business Intelligence platform and utilizes its associative features as well as state-of-the-art GUI. Over 3,000 Retail and Wholesale Distribution companies globally rely on QlikView to empower business users and decision-makers today, by providing access to on-demand analysis, insights and business discovery. ...