"BI is not an upgrade to the spreadsheet", "Stop trying to use spreadsheet as the BI tool" - BI vendors are frequently heard to make such comments. People may thus assume that the spreadsheet is on the decline, and feel embarrassed by their Microsoft Excel, RaqSoft esCalc, LibreOffice Calc, and OpenOffice Calc tools…

Jigsaw Academy, the best place on the web to learn data science and analytics, kick starts the new year with an improved course curriculum for its most popular analytics course.

Jigsaw Academy announced the launch of a new and improved curriculum for its flagship course: The Foundation course in Analytics Jigsaw Academy has seen a sharp increase in student enrolments from countries such…

OLAP is a type of BI software that emerged and gradually developed 20 years ago. OLAP can be used to handle the complex computation flexibly and rapidly according to the requirements of analyzers and present the result to the decision-makers in an intuitive and understandable style. The decision-makers can thus grasp the enterprise operating status accurately, understand the object requirements, and set the right scheme.…

By definition the true agile syntax only requires users to memorize a small number of basic functions to implement a great many of advanced functions through simple processing on the basic functions. The said simple processing is a programming style of lightweight effort that is far easier and simpler to grasp than the common programming. As the advantage of agile syntax, the number of basic functions will be reduced to alleviate the learning effort and cost of users, providing users with…

How do you motivate someone to create something that disrupts the paradigm and rewrites the rules? Do you say, “Give me something disruptive and I will pay you ten times your salary“. No. Disruption or innovation happens only under two situations:

1. If our survival is challenged by nature, we innovate to survive. This has been the story of human history from the day we started walking this earth.
2. Or, if our egos are challenged. This is probably why extreme sports…