Comments on: How is what we are building helping you make better decisions?

By: Will Dwinnell

Will Dwinnell — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:42:27 +0000

I agree absolutely that a major weakness of the mass BI deployment of the last 10 – 15 years is the lack of user sophistication. I spent some time working for one of the larger BI tool vendors, who sold truckloads of the stuff. As a post-sales consultant, my job was to help install and configure the software, and educate BI users as to its use (in formal classes). Given this experience, my question is:

When a BI analyst runs into the room, shouting “Two out of three of our customers also use Brand X!”, what does that really mean? 67% of thousands? …or literally 2 out of 3?

I seriously question what fraction of people using these tools are well equipped to understand their output.

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Protean » Blog Archive » What question does this answer? — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:29:11 +0000

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By: BI Monkey

BI Monkey — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:47:36 +0000

Rajesekar – see my post on learnintegrationservices.com – http://www.bimonkey.com/2009/04/learning-ssis-first-steps/ – very cheap and I found it to be a very good beginners resource. Good luck and I hope you find bimonkey of use in your studies as well!

By: BI Monkey

BI Monkey — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:45:22 +0000

Thanks Rockey – I do try to cover different areas (see my recent posts on Data Mining) – obviously I can only cover what I come up against in my day job – as an ETL monkey obviously I face SSIS the most!

By: Rajasekar

Rajasekar — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:04:33 +0000

Hi James,
I found this website when i was searching for SSIS Resource.I am new to SSIS and have worked on SSRS and little bit of SSAS.Can you guide me where i can learn from scratch on SSIS.Looking for your reply.

Thanks,
Rajasekar

By: rockey

rockey — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:52:34 +0000

Hi monkey
I think you are doing (blog) a grat job but it lacks some thing (not intresting). I know you are SSIS specialist but as a Microsoft BI professional you need to focus other stuff like Reporting, Analysis cubes and Business Performance Management (Dashboards) etc. thanks.