Unparalleled! Unprecedented! Black Swan event!  I have not seen the world changing so much in such a short span of time. Not in my lifetime. Just 2 weeks back I was in the US, visiting multiple cities including New York and Seattle. Unthinkable right now! Entire countries are shutting down.  We still do not know how COVID-19 […]

Navigating COVID-19 The Covid-19 crisis has impacted people globally and caused tremendous damage in terms of people’s lives. The impact has been felt by societies on personal and economic levels. In addition, Covid-19 has created challenging times for almost every industry and it is changing their business patterns significantly. As the impact curve of COVID-19 […]

Companies managing remote employees are shifting focus to maintaining productivity. What does productivity mean, now that employees are working with their spouses, children, trying to home-school and establishing boundaries between work and home is harder than ever?   While much of our focus is on business continuity, employers are responsible for supporting employees to avoid burnout and maintain open communication at […]

Industry accepted definition of a data warehouse is – “a subject oriented, integrated, nonvolatile, time variant collection of data for management’s decision making”. Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball approached the data warehouse architecture differently. Bill Inmon advocated the approach of creating a “Single version of Truth” Data warehouse where as Ralph Kimball took the “Dimensional […]

In Gartner survey, more Microsoft customers said True Cost of Ownership (TCO) was their #1 reason for selecting Microsoft as their BI vendor. In Microsoft’s current offering in the market, SQL Server 2008 R2 combined with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 offer rich capabilities as part of Microsoft’s BI stack. In the IT managed BI […]