Microsoft 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.

Webinar: 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.

November 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.

October 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 […]

Webinar: Big SQL Analytics – Cloudera Using Impala

On October 22, Brett Neuman, Manager Consultant at StatSlice Systems, presented a webinar on Cloudera using Impala as part of our series on Big SQL Analytics. This webinar was recorded and is available below. This webinar is the third video in our series on Big SQL Analytics, and it covers the results of our Cloudera […]

Research 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 […]

Webinar: 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 […]

September 2013 StatSlice Newsletter

This newsletter features highlights such as our webinar on Amazon Redshift, a post with a summary of the Q&A session from our Redshift webinar, and a blog by one of our manager consultants on Slowly Changing Dimensions in SSIS. Additionally, we included a an announcement of our book which will be released in early 2014 […]

August 2013 StatSlice Newsletter

This newsletter features our new layout which we hope you will enjoy. It covers highlights such as our recent whitepaper Information Singularity and the Principles of the Analytics Rock Star, our webinar on Mobile Business Intelligence with Roambi, and an article we published Dataversity on “Using Both Waterfall and Agile Methods” in project management. In addition, we […]

Webinar: Big SQL Analytics – Amazon Redshift Overview

On August 20, Bernard Wehbe, co-founder of StatSlice Systems, presented a webinar on Amazon Redshift as part of our series on Big SQL Analytics. This webinar was recorded and is available below. This webinar covers the results of our Amazon Redshift investigation where we walk you through the POC we performed and highlight the capabilities […]

The State of Business Intelligence and Business Analytics in Academia 2012

Earlier this year, we wrote a summary report on The State of Business Intelligence and Business Analytics in Academia 2012.  To download the 78 page white paper, you may click here, or alternatively, you may read our summary report here.  If you have any questions, please email us at info@statslice.com.  Thank you.    

July 2013 StatSlice Newsletter

This newsletter covers highlights such as our recent whitepaper Information Singularity and the Principles of the Analytics Rock Star, our webinar on GeoFlow, and an article we published in the May/June edition of Enterprise Executive magazine on big data. In addition, we announced our recent partnership with Roambi and gave a brief explanation of Big […]

Big Data: Is It Just Another Big Hype?

In the May/June 2013 edition of Enterprise Executive magazine, Bernard Wehbe, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of StatSlice Systems, published an interesting article in regards to Big Data.  Is Big Data something businesses should pay close attention to, or is it just another big hype?  To read the full article click here.

Information Singularity and the Principles of the Analytics Rock Star

What makes an analytics system great? Great design, quality code, strong business sponsorship, accurate requirements, good project management, and thorough testing are some of the obvious requirements for successful analytics systems. As a professional in the field, you must be able to do these things well since they form the foundation of a good implementation. This is good enough for most people but not good enough for you—if you want to be in high demand and help your organization overcome its critical challenges.

Successful analytics professionals should follow a set of guiding principles. These very important principles are often missed by traditional methodologies. In this whitepaper you will learn about these principles that, once implemented, can make you an analytics rock star in your organization and increase your worth in the marketplace.

Webinar: Microsoft’s New GeoFlow Tool For Excel

On June 25, Brett Neuman, Manager Consultant at StatSlice Systems, delivered an exciting new webinar with a preview of Microsoft’s new GeoFlow tool for Excel. Included below are the links to download the GeoFlow Demo, GeoFlow plugin for Microsoft Excel, video of the cinematic tour, and the full webinar video in case you missed it. […]