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Making Data-Driven Decisions with Tableau & StatSlice
Join Tableau and StatSlice on Wednesday, March 4th, 2015 for a lunch and learn event in Plano, Texas at the Dallas/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town Center to hear how Tableau enables people at all levels throughout an organization to investigate data to find nuances, trends, and outliers in a flash and can better enable you […]
Read MoreMicrosoft Business Intelligence Tools for Excel Analysts
For the first time, Excel is an integral part of the Microsoft BI stack – capable of integrating multiple data sources, defining relationships between data sources, processing analysis services cubes, and developing interactive dashboards that can be shared on the web. With these new tools, it’s becoming important for Excel analysts to expand their knowledge to include new skills, like database management, query design, data integration, multidimensional reporting, and a host of other practices.
Read MoreMake Better Business Decisions by Being Data-Driven
Recently, there has been an increased focus on businesses attempting to become data-driven. Companies are investing heavily in storing, tracking, and managing data, but data alone doesn’t tell much of a story. Analytics provide the window into what the data means, but proper analysis is critical to avoid a data disaster.
Read MoreMaking Data-Driven Decisions Event in Dallas, TX
Join Tableau and StatSlice on Wednesday, July 9th, 2014 for a lunch and learn event in Dallas, Texas at the Hotel Palomar to hear how Tableau enables people at all levels throughout an organization to investigate data to find nuances, trends, and outliers in a flash and can better enable you to make data-driven decisions. […]
Read MoreHow to Use Power Query: Introducing Microsoft’s Newest BI Tool
If you’ve spent much time in Excel, odds are that at one point you had data in one table that you needed to combine with data from another table. There are few ways to attempt this manually which are time consuming and might not even work. But this task and more are easy with Microsoft Power Query.
Read MoreWebinar: Building a B2B Analytics Portal with Tableau
In this webinar, James Vogel and Bernard Wehbe show you how to use Tableau to quickly build a custom B2B analytics portal to serve your client’s reporting needs over the internet.
Read MoreBig Data and Today’s Marketers
I recently read an article on Information Week about the common lack of big data skills among marketing professionals. As a marketing professional myself, I can attest to the truth of that statement. Even if you have very little knowledge of marketing practices, you might be familiar with the 4 Ps: Product, Price, Place, and […]
Read MoreDecember 2013 StatSlice Newsletter
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Read MoreNovember 2013 StatSlice Newsletter
This newsletter features highlights such as our webinar on Cloudera with Impala, a blog by Brett Neuman that was recently published by Dataversity, and some fun visuals of recent NCAA stats. Additionally, we shared some industry insights and information about recent popular service update releases. Click here to read our November 2013 newsletter.
Read MoreOctober 2013 StatSlice Newsletter
This newsletter features highlights such as our webinar on Amazon Redshift with Tableau, the second release of our university research report on programs offering BI & analytics degrees in the US & Canada, and a helpful visual of that report comparing some of the universities’ programs. Additionally, we shared some info on two of our […]
Read MorePredictive Analytics Internship Opportunity
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Read MoreEntry Level Business Intelligence Consultant Opportunity
Who We Are We are a strategic data services consulting firm headquartered in Dallas, TX specializing in data warehousing and business analytics. Strategic data services include the skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support business decision-making. We’ve built a highly dedicated consulting organization that has a reputation for excellent customer service and measurable […]
Read MoreFrom LinkedIn’s Business Analyst Forum: Answering the question “How do you gather requirements”?
Gathering requirements for any project, large or small, is the absolute most important task in the process. Any consultant will tell you that most projects fail here. It’s not that they fail to gather requirements, but the requirements gathered are almost never adequate enough to satisfy the business need. More often than not, the tools […]
Read MoreResearch Report: Business Intelligence Universities, Release 2.1 (Updated)
There has been an update to this report as of October 10, 2013. In May 2013, we released the first version of this report as a master list of universities in the United States and Canada offering degrees or certificates in business intelligence field. After extensive research, we are now releasing the second version of […]
Read MoreWebinar: Big SQL Analytics – Amazon Redshift with Tableau
On September 24, James Vogel, Senior Consultant at StatSlice Systems, presented a webinar on the Amazon Redshift connector for Tableau as part of our series on Big SQL Analytics. This webinar was recorded and is available below. In this webinar, we walk you through connecting Tableau to Redshift and pulling in a large data set […]
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