7 Ways to Transform Your Business with Data Analytics

Data analytics can be a powerful tool for transforming your business and driving growth. By harnessing data insights, organizations can gain a deeper understanding of their operations, identify key performance indicators, and make data-driven decisions. In this article, we’ll explore seven ways that you can use data analytics to transform your business. Understanding the Power … Continued

Utilizing Business Intelligence to Gain Competitive Advantage

In today’s rapidly-evolving and highly competitive business environment, companies need to be able to make informed decisions quickly and accurately. This is where business intelligence (BI) comes in – a set of tools, processes, and technologies that collect and analyze data to provide insights into a company’s operations and performance. In this article, we will … Continued

SEPTEMBER 2022: PEOPLE OF HICO – MARIUS VOGEL, BI CONSULTANT

The HICO Group family is constantly growing, and from each of our colleagues, we learn something new. We are facing new challenges daily in our jobs, and they prepare us for more complex situations.As Marius says: “We do not grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges.“ And we could not agree … Continued

How to Develop a Top-Notch Business Intelligence (BI) Strategy

Business intelligence is a collective term used to describe processes, technologies, and strategies for gathering, analyzing, and presenting business information. Business intelligence aims to improve an organization’s decision-making process by acting as an aid in areas such as planning, forecasting, budgeting, target tracking, optimization, sales analysis, etc. There are four key components to BI systems: … Continued

Data in Spreadsheets: How Risky Is It in 2023?

Using spreadsheets in a business environment is a common practice nowadays. It has been for decades now. Companies are just “used to” using spreadsheets to store, manage, and work with important data. Increasingly, businesses and individuals also use spreadsheets to store all manner of sensitive information such as passwords and bank account details. However, there … Continued

5 Common Traits of Highly Successful Business Intelligence Teams

Business intelligence (BI) teams have become increasingly important in mid-to-large organizations over the past decade. BI teams are responsible for analyzing data to help make better business decisions. As such, they need to be highly successful for organizations to achieve their goals. Importance of BI Teams in an Organization In order to make decisions, organizations … Continued

Business Intelligence Consultants: What Do They Do?

A Business Intelligence Consultant, also known as a BI Consultant, is in charge of enhancing a company’s internal operations through consulting and data-related activities to gain a competitive advantage. Those activities might be related to data analytics, planning, warehousing, etc. But, what exactly does a BI Consultant do, and what are some of the day-to-day … Continued

5 Perspectives of Data Analytics by Today’s Business Leaders

For a lot of businesses today, data analytics represents just a collection of plain numbers that don’t make much sense. For others, is a vital tool used to improve business operations, services, and performance. Data analytics has numerous benefits and purposes for any sized business. Looking at the situation from an idealistic perspective, analytics should … Continued

Data Reporting vs. Data Analytics: What’s the Difference?

When talking about data, two terms are frequently mentioned – data reporting and data analytics. Even though many people use these terms as if they are interchangeable, they are actually quite different. In general, both reporting and analytics draw upon the same data. However, what makes the two distinct is their purpose, tasks, outputs, delivery, … Continued

Data Storytelling vs. Data Analytics: Are They the Same?

Back in 2009, Google’s Chief Economist Dr. Hal R.Varian stated, “The ability to take data – to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it – that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.” Now, in 2021, every successful business … Continued

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