Employee Expenses Reporting Platform – our South Australian Government case study
A solution to provide a regular view of Employee Expenses against budgets. Our solution overcomes a lack of capacity and flexibility in the incumbent Human Resources system. See our case study on the solution that combines data from disparate systems, presenting it to the business in an easy to consume format, allowing the business to […]
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Financial forecasting, reporting and commentary at scale – LSA Synergy Case Study
Synergy gave LSA (Lifetime Support Authority) financial forecasting, reporting, commentary and interactive analysis at scale. This translated to astounding business benefits such as: Effective low latent financial reporting Lesser reliance on IT to manage reporting structure Saved huge reporting and analysis effort Commentary to contextualize data that follow the analysis for life Auditing and workflow Etc. […]
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We test drive Azure Analysis Services – the good, and the not so good.
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Microsoft’s announcement of the release of Azure Analysis Services for SSAS Tabular solutions as a PaaS solution has come at just the right time. In the modern world of Advanced Analytics, Semantic Models rather than data warehouses will increasingly play the core role in corporate data landscapes – they are places where […]
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From operational challenges to a modern, automated and simplified organisation – Our Business SA case study
An Exposé case study around our advanced analytics solution for the ‘voice of business in South Australia’, Business SA. The solution was an important component of a large digital transformation program that saw Business SA transition to a modern, automated and simplified organization which was underpinned by the following technology changes; • A cloud-first strategy which […]
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Colouring with numbers – Can data present a better picture?
With the rise of self-service reporting, is just presenting the data enough? Or is how information is presented just as impactful as to what is being presented?
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Connecting to Big Data Clusters from Excel
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Connecting to big data clusters from Excel is now relatively simple. But those who have tried would have noticed multiple ways to achieve what seems to be the same thing. This article aims to clear these muddy waters a bit. I am using Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus (Excel 2013) updated to […]
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Power BI and Microsoft Azure – what’s all the fuss about?
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen This blog provides a journey starting with Excel and its promotion to BI, it moves on to Power BI version 2 and concludes with a much larger Azure analytical story. Let’s start this journey with some topical statistics. US$97bn the projected annual dollar spend on BI services by 2016. Good 19% the […]
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