Trending data can be a great way to predict and analyze the performance of any metric. There are many ways to represent data with a chart. However, the best chart type to display trending values is the line chart. Line charts are often seen as financial charts that are only useful to display upward and [...]

Having successfully settled into my hotel the room, my real adventure begins to with my first day of work. From what I’ve seen already my imagination is running wild with what to expect from the next week here. None the less it’s time to get moving so I jump in the shower, brush my teeth [...]

So what’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word Congo? For me it was a movie about gorillas and vast rainforests, definitely not technology and BI consulting. Recently, however, an opportunity came up for me to travel to The Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa and I couldn’t help but [...]

Navigating the rough seas of today’s tough economic climate is as difficult as ever.  With profits falling, costs rising, and lending practices tighter than ever, today’s business leaders are constantly looking for undiscovered cost advantages to give them an edge in their market.  In an organization’s IT department, this has become increasingly difficult with most [...]

Don’t get me wrong. I really liked my Blackberry. I could check email, surf the web, and I love BBM. But, I have to say that my new Droid is better. All the stuff I could do on the Blackberry plus navigation, a better screen, and a better application market. It is pretty neat to [...]

iDashboards helps companies leverage information assets through visually rich, real-time and personalized business intelligence dashboards to analyze, track, and drilldown through a wealth of information. iDashboards continues to provide leading business intelligence dashboard software, with the release of iDashboards X Platform. iDashboards X Platform includes a host of new features designed to improve the user [...]

Server hardware and server administration is a complex industry. Maybe you have seen an old server sitting in the closet at your office. Or even worse, maybe you’re still using that obsolete server to host your applications. This situation is not uncommon because businesses are trying to utilize and extend the life of their hardware [...]

When I applied for my first mortgage in 1996, I qualified for almost five times what I needed. The issue was I only wanted the amount I was looking for and could afford. The broker tried to explain to me that I didn’t understand, I could get a lot bigger house. I explained I didn’t [...]

One of the evolving frontiers within business intelligence is gathering insight from the world of unstructured data.  Particularly in the web 2.0 world, data volumes are not just growing but exploding.  Twitter is a great example.  For companies looking for business insight, there’s gold to be found in the world of unstructured data from blogs, [...]

iDashboards is continuing their tradition of creating dashboards for major sporting events such as the Olympics and NCAA basketball tournament with the debut of their World Cup dashboards. We have developed a tool to track the results of this exciting tournament. This offers soccer enthusiasts a visually rich dashboard to access the latest information on [...]