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Making shopping a smooth and easy experience is the goal of many online shops. But how can easy website navigation be optimized? Unlike the physical shops, you cannot talk to the sales people in the online shops and a customer should find his or her way through the online shop. And unlike pysical shops, online shops can have hundreds of thousands of visitors every day. To optimize the shopping experience, some important questions should be answered : Why do customers put products into their shopping cart and do not buy them at the end? Was it because of the sales process or he/she liked another product simply better? What impact has a customer's drop from a detail page? Where are the differences in customer behavior depending on the different product groups, Customer types or assortments? What are the figures compared to the previous year? Were there any technical errors? Was the accessibility of all pages always guaranteed? Traditionally, answering these questions require a lot of...

If you are using Tableau’s great BI, reporting and visualization software to see and understand your data, but are struggling with performance or just want to overcome the limitations of Tableau Data Extracts (TDE), EXASOL is the solution you need. Using EXASOL as the analytic database engine to power your Tableau server and client, means that you will be able to accelerate your reporting and visualizations dramatically by boosting your Tableau performance. EXASOL is the world’s fastest in-memory, high-performance (Massive Parallel Processing or MPP), analytic database which is designed for big data analytics. EXASOL makes large volumes of data analysis in real-time possible, which helps you to accelerate your Business Intelligence and Analytics applications. EXASOL is ideally suited for real-time big data reporting, analysis, and advanced analytics. EXASOL also enables in database analytics. It supports R, Python, Java, Lua or your preferred programming language to build analytic app...

By utilizing a well-executed Integrated Business Planning process ( IBP ), companies can achieve cross-functional alignment, optimize costs and improve customer satisfaction. The need for both strategic and tactical agility is manifested in the ability to anticipate changes in demand and supply conditions, investigate ad-hoc scenarios and generate executable plans. Integrated Business Planning process has extended the Sales & Operations Planning process and has now been the best practice in the industry. The process is led by senior management and aims to align company plans every month to allocate the critical resources - people, equipment, inventory, materials, time and money - to most effectively satisfy your customers, in a profitable way. IBP is a complex process and unfortunately, many companies are trying to run it manually using spreadsheets with the help of their ERP or SCM software. To make this manual process practical, the companies does a lot of aggregation and ab...

Production Planning and Scheduling in modern manufacturing environment has become quite complex. But unfortunately many ERP solutions, even in their production planning and scheduling modules, do not provide a satisfactory mechanism to handle the complexity of the problem. These ERP, MRP or MPS mechanisms are transactional and designed for mass production facilities of past with low product mix, generous inventory sizes and relatively simple supply chain networks. Since the complexity is not addressed by the systems in hand, most planners rely on a cumbersome, time-consuming, error-prone and manual process run on many Excel files. But this does not need to be the case and there is a superior and highly successful process out there : Advanced Planning and Scheduling. Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) is a software platform which deploys advanced mathematical algorithms or logic to perform optimization and/or and/or simulation on finite capacity scheduling, sourcing, capit...

Manufacturing in 21st century is a complex task. It is mostly Make-to-order and the production is highly capital-intensive. The high product mix combined with large number of components or manufacturing tasks makes it already a big challenge to plan but because there is little to no stock to shield manufacturing from changes in demand, frequent schedule changes creates extra complexity. Most manufacturing companies have ERP and Supply Chain Management systems but these do not help a lot. The logic in these systems are developed and matured in 1980s and they are transactional systems, developed for make-to-stock, low product-mix, high order volume manufacturing. Since ERP systems are not helping a lot, most planners use spreadsheets to create a more executable and feasible plan. But this manual process is cumbersome, time consuming, slow, inflexible and error prone. It does not also allow to deploy optimization (a supply chain which is not optimized is usually 15% - 20% more costly to ...

The global aviation fleet is set to grow steadily over the coming decade, with global CAGR at 3.4%, and areas such as Asia-Pacific, seeing CAGR of 4.2%. This will significantly increase the demand for aircraft Maintenance Repair and Overhaul in the following years. Increased demand will introduce new competitive forces and an increasingly demanding customer base. MRO companies will respond by capacity increase, overtime or hardware technology updates to accommodate the increase but this wont be enough or even if it would be enough the constraints on resources and the sheer cost of increasing capacity will be prohibitive. A more intelligent way to handle the growth will be using game changer IT Technologies. Using advanced data analytics, predictive maintenance, data visualization and algorithmic supply chain planning and scheduling will enable companies to significantly increase the productivity and predictability of their MRO operations. You may have heard the first 3 IT Technologies ...

Data analytics on very large sets of data can be frustrating in terms of performance. Many Business Intelligence applications like Tableau can annoyingly get slow when you are trying to perform real time analysis on large data sets. Solution is usually consolidating and thus reducing the size of the data but this requires extra development and scripts to maintain plus, you lose the granularity of the data. A good solution to this problem is EXASOL, worlds fastest in-memory, high-performance (Massive Parallel Processing or MPP), analytic database which is designed for big data analytics. EXASOL makes large volumes of data analysis in rel-time possible, which helps you to accelerate your Business Intelligence and Analytics applications. EXASOL is ideally suited for real-time big data reporting, analysis, and advanced analytics. EXASOL deploys two techniques together : Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) which enables clusters of hardware running EXASOL to achieve the task and in-m...

Tableau is one of the best Business Intelligence and Data Visualization software in the market today. Its game changing drag-and-drop, self-service experience is unparalleled and it is popularly used worldwide. Tableau is highly optimized and works quite fast in many applications but in applications where you need to read large volumes of data, like hundreds of millions or billions of rows, it can get dramatically slow (yes there are some illustrations of Tableau with large datasets but they are very isolated, single report demos and in a real life dashboard things can get pretty slow if you need to reaf more than 100 million rows). Tableau is aware of this problem so back in March 2016, they have purchased HyPer , a high performance database system initially developed as a research project at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Unfortunately, they did not release any plan for the availability of HyPer yet. Luckily, there is already a solution out there, more established and po...

You are invited to Tableau 10 Data Visualization Software webinar on June 9th and June 16th 2017. In this free event, you will have a chance to learn how a state of the art data visualization platform like Tableau can help you to explore and analyse your data. Thanks to Tableau’s intuitive GUI and drag-and-drop data visualization capabilities, everyone in your organization can easily create flexible, interactive visualizations and make meaningful decisions. The event will also demonstrate a step-by-step Tableau demo which will show how you can create stunning interactive data analysis dashboards intuitively by just simple drag-and-drop interfaces. You will learn how to explore data with smart visualizations that automatically adapts to the parameters you set — no need for developers, data scientists or designers. We will also cover what are new functionalities in Tableau 10 and Tableau 10.2. There are 4 date / time slots available for the event. Tableau Event Information: Venue : W...

Analytics is the process of using quantitative methods to derive actionable insight and outcomes from data. It involves the capture and use of the data to support fact-based decision making and gaining competitive advantage . It typically involves reporting on what has happened in the past but using tools like predictive analytics based on historical data, you can also estimate what will happen in the future. To catch a glimpse on what does Procurement Data Analytics looks like, you can take a look at this Procurement Dashboard sample. This application illustrates how an organization can analyze their spending and contracts. Users can analyze procurement through the use of purchase orders, contract coverage, payment patterns, etc. to determine which parts of the organization make their payments on time and have outstanding balances, monitor the status of contracts and important contract dates. The data used in this dashboard can be sourced from a standard Procurement or Accounts P...

Tableau is one of the most popular Business Intelligence software in the market today. Many organizations are adapting Tableau recently and trying to migrate from their old Business Intelligence platform to Tableau. In this post, we will focus on QlikView to Tableau migration. Effort needed to migrate from QlikView to Tableau depends on the way your QlikView software is implemented. In some cases, the data needed for QlikView Dashboard is completely prepared in a 3rd party tool so when migrating to Tableau, you do not need to convert ETL (extraction - transformation - load) code. But in most cases, ETL for QlikView is implemented using Qlik's own query language, AQL (QlikView is based upon patented technology called Associative Query Logic (AQL)). Tableau does not provide a native ETL functionality so when migrating from QlikView to Tableau, you will probably need a 3rd solution to implement ETL for Tableau. The exception above is of course keeping QlikView for ETL and just convert...

Tableau may be a great data visualization tool but it has very limited functionality for data blending and data integration. Worse, most customers misunderstand "self service business intelligence concept" and think that they will get Tableau and without any data integration they can connect to the databases and create visualization (customers are actually made to believe this with Tableau's sales pitch). Unfortunately, most business data is stored in complex relational database management systems or ERP which is very difficult, if not impossible to connect directly. Thus, many companies buying self service business intelligence solution realize that they cannot use it effectively due to this limitation. Solution for this Tableau data integration problem is developing a  data integration with a non-Tableau application which is purpose built for this function. This data integration layer will simplify, consolidate and usually enrich the complex transactional data and will ...

Marketing data analysis allows marketing people to align strategies to address market shifts, customer sentiment, and developing trends. Used correctly, a data analysis dashboard for marketing can boost marketing ROI through better targeting and campaign performance. This Marketing Performance Analysis Dashboard , named Marketing 360, is an online business intelligence demo app brings together data from multiple sources into a one-stop-shop view. Analyze Marketing's performance across the organization from digital performance of the website to pipeline and install base engagement. The demo application is composed of below screens to analyze different details and aspects of the marketing data : Marketing Performance Dashboard View - Summarizes Awareness (Total Visits), Pipeline (Number of Opportunities Created) and Engagement (Net New Logos). Awareness View - This section analysis visits to company site through Web, Social Media and Inbound (CRM). Pipeline View - This section sho...

Tableau Software is finally making the big change in the way it sells its business intelligence products: they have announced their new  Tableau subscription pricing  for all its products, including Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. These new pricing model will potentially lower the threshold for users looking to gain access to a full-fledged analytics platform. Tableau subscription prices are now as below : Tableau Desktop Personal subscription price is US$35 per user per month Tableau Desktop Professional subscription price is $70 per user per month Tableau Server subscription price is US$35 per user per month Tableau Enterprise offerings prices are not public but this is also available under  Tableau subscription model. Tableau perpetual prices are $1000 for Tableau Desktop Personal, $2000 for Tableau Desktop Professional and $1000 for Tableau Server per user. The perpetual model also comes with 20% yearly license maintenance. Since Microsoft Power BI entered the mar...

If you are looking for a freelancer or someone to outsource services of Web Scraping  / Data Mining/ Data Extraction from any website according to your instructions, read on. Fiverr, one of the most popular online freelance or micro service provider market, has a very good gig at your service. Fiverr level 2 seller  Hotopilams has this gig titled " I will do Data Mining, Web Scraping, Data Extraction,Excel CSV job " on Fiverr with 5 star reviews and 667 customers as of the writing of this post. Starting from 5 USD per gig, he will write data mining scripts that will automatically extract data from the website you need. He also offers data extraction from .pdf, .txt, .csv excel, Access, MySQL. The final data can be delivered in many formats like XLS, CSV, SQL, TXT, DOC, PDF etc. All you need to do is to try to describe your needs as much as possible (exact site URL + the fields you need). Freelance Data Mining, Web Scraping, Data Extraction,Excel CSV job

Qlik has finally announced the general availability of its Qlik Sense Cloud Business Platform. Qlik Sense tokens on cloud will now be available for only 25 USD per user per month. With this addition, Qlik Sense now offers following cloud pricing models : Qlik Sense Cloud Basic is free, Qlik Sense Cloud Plus is priced at 20 USD per user per month, Qlik Sense Cloud Business is priced at 25 USD per user per month. Qlik Sense Cloud Basic and Plus are for individuals. Basic model has a limitation to share your dashboards with up to 5 users. The newly announced Qlik Sense Cloud Business targets groups and teams and features collaborative and operationalized analytics with group-level governance, coauthoring workspace and automated data refreshes. Qlik Sense perpetual pricing model has 2 options : Qlik Sense Desktop is free and Qlik Sense Enterprise is 1,500 USD per user and also requires 20% annual license maintenance. Qlik Sense cloud subscription pricing model Qlik Sense licensing is based...

Although the computer technology as well as the available advanced planning and scheduling platforms has matured to a level to provide advanced optimization based Sales and Operations Planning for many manufacturing facilities within a very reasonable budget, most companies still deploy old school, cumbersome and very slow S&OP processes. In this webinar, Associate Professor Caner Taşkın from Bogazici University (VP of Technology in ICRON Technologies ) presents how mathematical optimization is accessible for Sales & Operations Planning thanks to advances in computer technology and proven optimization engines like ICRON. He also presents some real life examples of optimization and scenario based S&OP. Mr. Taşkın starts with an introduction to S&OP and then details how modern S&OP process should be. Later in the webinar, he gives case studies and sample implementations of Optimization and Scenario Based Sales & Operations Planning using ICRON Technologies. Op...

Twitter is one of the most influential and important social media site on the planet today. Most companies want to know (or should want to know) what people are talking about them, their products and competitors. Which companies get tweeted about most? Us or competitors? How does the sentiment trend over time for us and competition? It is obviously impossible to manually track hundreds and thousands of tweets about your company and competition to get a sense of market sentiment. You need an automated twitter analysis tool to help. Like a Twitter Data Analysis Dashboard. Here in this post, we will introduce a sample Twitter Analysis Dashboard which nicely summarizes publicly available data. The Business Intelligence platform used here is Qlik Sense. The application uses  Qlik Web Connectors  to extract Twitter data and automatically loads and visualizes the data for you. You can access the application using this link : Twitter Analysis Dashboard . The dashboard is availab...

ICRON Technologies B.V. , a Netherlands based Advanced Planning, Scheduling and Optimization solution provider is setting up an office in Singapore. ICRON Technologies Asia Pacific will serve South East Asia and East Asia markets to help companies to solve their planning, scheduling, supply chain network optimization, demand planning and S&OP problems. ICRON Technologies  has more than 20 years of experience in Advanced Planning, Scheduling and Optimization and their solutions are used in some well established companies like ASML, Vestel, LG, Singapore Airlines, Rolls Royce, Bridgestone, Perfetti van Melle, etc. The company builts these solutions on their Advanced Planning and Scheduling engine and is known for fast implementation times hovering around 3 months. Their product family includes : -  ICRON Advanced Planning and Scheduling  ( ICRON APS ) - Enterprise level finite capacity planning and scheduling solution offering offers a clear, cost-effectiv...