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Lyndsay Wise

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Industry Analyst, President - WiseAnalytics, WiseAnalytics

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Lyndsay Wise is the president and founder of WiseAnalytics. Lyndsay has ten years of IT experience in business systems analysis, software selection, and implementation of enterprise applications. She provides consulting services for small and mid-sized companies and conducts research into ...

Lyndsay Wise is the president and founder of WiseAnalytics. Lyndsay has ten years of IT experience in business systems analysis, software selection, and implementation of enterprise applications. She provides consulting services for small and mid-sized companies and conducts research into leading technologies, market trends, BI products and vendors, mid-market needs, and data visualization.

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WEB: BI4SMB Community

Nov. 11, 2011

Lyndsay Wise and 4 other people answered this question

What is the significance of user participation in business intelligence for the enterprise?

Hi Lisa,
Sure thing! Good luck with your dissertation.
Regards,
Lyndsay

Business Intelligence

Sept. 21, 2011

Lyndsay Wise is speaking at this roundtable

Making the Case for Business Analytics

Information Technology

Business Analytics

Business Intelligence

Aug. 25, 2011

Lyndsay Wise and 9 other people answered this question

Why should SMBs consider investing in BI and which kinds of SMBs don't need it?

In general, all organizations require BI at some level. Wayne's comment above about all companies using BI at some level is very accurate. The issue though is whether the use of spreadsheets and other general tools provide the most value to organizations.
One of the ... more

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence & Analytics

Aug. 9, 2011

Lyndsay Wise is speaking at this roundtable

Self-Service BI, what does it look like? How do you evolve towards Self-Service BI?

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Information Management

Self-service BI

July 23, 2011

Anup Mahansaria selected a best answer for at this roundtable

Is BI-SaaS Right for Your Organization? [7/12 @ 9:30 am]

Is SAAS BI going to be very domain specific?

When we are talking about SAAS BI, do we need to focus on the ones which are working on providing solutions in the specific domain like CRM, Health Care etc more

General Management

Information Technology

July 12, 2011

Lyndsay Wise recommends this answer by Jonathan Wu

Do you need a data warehouse to have mobile business intelligence?

It depends on the information that the mobile BI technology will be accessing and the organization's information management environment. If the subject matter is current operational data, such as outstanding sales orders by customer, the most current information would be obtained from accessing the database ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

July 12, 2011

Lyndsay Wise answered this question at this roundtable

Is BI-SaaS Right for Your Organization? [7/12 @ 9:30 am]

#Focusrt712 What verticals will gain the greatest value in using a BI SaaS environment?

Hi Maurene,
Unfortunately, from what I've seen, there doesn't seem to be a right fit based on industry as many types of organizations benefit from SaaS BI. However, with that said, Shawn's retail example was spot on because many retailers (especially in relation to online transactions) ... more

General Management

Information Technology

July 8, 2011

Lyndsay Wise is speaking at this roundtable

Is BI-SaaS Right for Your Organization?

General Management

Information Technology

June 29, 2011

Lyndsay Wise and 1 other person answered this question at this roundtable

Is BI-SaaS Right for Your Organization? [7/12 @ 9:30 am]

What types of organizations find the most value from SaaS BI? Does company size matter?

I agree with Adrian. In addition, certain organizations are better suited to SaaS. For instance more and more organizations are developing a virtual environment and want to have their solutions centralized within a cloud environment. These types of businesses are well poised to consider SaaS ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Cloud Computing

Information Management

June 23, 2011

Lyndsay Wise and 4 other people answered this question

How should businesses keep up with the constant innovation in the BI marketplace?

I agree with both John and Jonathan.
On the one hand I think it is important to understand new technologies and innovations within the BI market. After all, some organizations will require adoption of some of these innovations in order to take their competitive advantage ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Information Management

June 21, 2011

Lyndsay Wise and 2 other people answered this question

Does the movement toward the utilization of social data have any implications for the data warehouse

Although it isn't possible to anticipate all of the implications for a trend such as social network analysis and data capture within a data warehouse, two of the immediate aspects that came to mind in relation to potential implications were:
1) data storage and the amount ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

June 15, 2011

Lyndsay Wise and 1 other person answered this question at this roundtable

Is Data Warehousing a Dead End Approach to Information Management? [6/15 @ 9:30 am]

How about the Data Warehouse feeding real-time/near real-time OLTP systems?

I agree with Dan's comment and just wanted to add that I have been seeing this as more of a trend. Data warehousing is moving towards becoming a supportive way to interact with data on the whole - and this includes being able to feed ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

June 15, 2011

Lyndsay Wise and 2 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Is Data Warehousing a Dead End Approach to Information Management? [6/15 @ 9:30 am]

Does the use of Excel as a reporting tool create multiple versions of the truth?

I think that Dan brought up a good point of the use of SharePoint or some alternate way of version control or the ability to control the output of data. Unfortunately, otherwise what Wilkerson says is true - in many companies multiple end users are ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

June 15, 2011

Lyndsay Wise is speaking at this roundtable

Is Data Warehousing a Dead End Approach to Information Management?

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

April 21, 2011

Lyndsay Wise and 25 other people answered this question

Should BI Teams Reside on the IT or the Business Side?

I think that it really depends on the situation and goal of the project. However, based on experience, the BI projects that have been most likely to succeed are ones that have both aspects - in terms of being driven by the business through the ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Jan. 18, 2011

Lyndsay Wise and 10 other people answered this question

Does business intelligence make sense for (really) small businesses?

In general when companies want to gain more visibility into what they are doing and become more proactive in relation to business planning and increasing profits, then size becomes irrelevant when looking at the value of BI. This being said, obviously the availability of solutions ... more

General Management

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Return on Investment

Jan. 6, 2011

Lyndsay Wise published a brief

SMBs Versus Enterprise: BI Vendor Emphasis

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Nov. 2, 2010

Lyndsay Wise and 8 other people answered this question

What's the #1 reason why business intelligence projects fail?

In addition to lack of requirements and people, one of the things that I've been coming across is lack of scope - organizations trying to do everything without a proper understanding of what they are trying to achieve and what data infrastructure is truly required ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Applications

Sept. 20, 2010

Lyndsay Wise and 13 other people answered this question

What are some BI trends that we have seen in 2010?

The trends that I keep seeing from a general industry perspective are cloud computing and mobile. But in terms of what I am seeing among my readers and clients are companies looking for ways to optimize their current BI environments through the use of data ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Trends for 2010

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