Is Excel a BI solution? Many of us use Excel in the office or at home to manipulate numbers for better insights and decision-making. Increasingly Excel is used as an entry-level BI tool for data analysis and data preparation. Let’s find out how we can use Excel to visualize and better understand our data.
ArcGIS is often referred to as a platform, but is not everything a platform these days? To answer the above question, this article will explore various platform definitions. It will then give an overview of ArcGIS, before indicating what kind of platform ArcGIS really is.
38.6 million people lived in Kenya in 2009 according to its national census. The population could reach 50 million by 2020, but the predictions depend on the data source and method used. In this article we look at some of the population data sources and their predictions.
ArcGIS Pro is a 64-bit, multithreaded GIS desktop application that runs on Windows. It was first released in January 2015, but ArcMap appears to have remained the most popular ArcGIS Desktop application. In June 2017 Esri released ArcGIS Pro 2.0 and this might be an opportune time to make the switch to the new application.
Geo is an intriguing prefix for any science or discipline. Take geopolitics, which has been defined as politics influenced by geographic factors. Similarly, Geomarketing can be defined as marketing influenced by factors like demographics, store locations and physical accessibility.
Power BI became generally available in July 2015, and has helped Microsoft to be recognized by Gartner as a leader in Business Intelligence and Analytics over the last 2 years. A Power BI product review appeared to be in order, but I decided to document my journey of discovery instead.
Are you familiar with GIS, EAM and CMMS? Don’t worry, what I want you to remember from this article are business benefits and value of integrated asset and work order management in a GIS-enabled environment.
Would you spend money on mapping software or rather buy a BI solution? Believe it, or not, you can get both by buying a Geographic Information System (GIS). Read the rest of the article to learn more about the Data Value Chain, GIS and BI.