Author Archives: Anuradha Bankar
Amazon Redshift for Big Data Analysis
Amazon Web Services recently launched its low-cost big data analysis service Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a new data warehouse for big data on cloud. It is a specialized type of relational database, optimized for high-performance analysis and reporting of very … Read More
Fusion Chart Plugin for Pentaho BI Platform
Say goodbye to those boring dashboards built using Open Source BI Tools. With Pentaho Fusion Chart Plugin, you can now use FusionCharts inside Pentaho. This plugin is free and open source.
Charts can optionally be rendered using Flash and JavaScript … Read More
Hierarchy feature in QlikView
We often deal with hierarchies in Business Intelligence tools. We have to transform the data and establish parent-child relationship between entities before we can use it for reporting.
QlikView has its own way of dealing with hierarchies using the … Read More
Social Media Analytics
As Facebook gears up for its public offering, marketers are clamoring to understand how to use Facebook fan data. Facebook is now the second largest display advertiser on the Web. Advertisers spent more than $3-Billion on Facebook ads in 2011, … Read More
Big Data Challenge: Future is Right Here!
Between now and 2020, the sheer volume of digital information is predicted to increase to 35 trillion gigabytes – much of it will come from new sources including financial and retail transactions, web logs, RFID, sensor networks, social media, telephony, … Read More