http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2010/03/10/reporting-tools-cant-fix-bad-data/ Thoughts, musings, and, hopefully, not too many redundancies on the world of business data. If you missed the irony in the previous sentence, you may struggle with my writing style. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:44:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2010/03/10/reporting-tools-cant-fix-bad-data/comment-page-1/#comment-40312 Daan Provily Sat, 01 May 2010 14:33:12 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=713#comment-40312 Reporting tools (or dashboards) can't fix bad data, but they can visualize them well. So, managers can act upon it, and get rid of the data quality process and governance. I do not agree with your statement that BI can't give you access to data that isn't available. One of the most succesfull BI applications is to show items that are not in the database, for example the products that customers didn't buy but they should buy, because similar customers did it before. And that's the difference between reporting tools and BI tools, reporting tools contain not any intelligence, BI tools or platforms in general do. Reporting tools (or dashboards) can’t fix bad data, but they can visualize them well. So, managers can act upon it, and get rid of the data quality process and governance. I do not agree with your statement that BI can’t give you access to data that isn’t available. One of the most succesfull BI applications is to show items that are not in the database, for example the products that customers didn’t buy but they should buy, because similar customers did it before. And that’s the difference between reporting tools and BI tools, reporting tools contain not any intelligence, BI tools or platforms in general do.

]]> http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2010/03/10/reporting-tools-cant-fix-bad-data/comment-page-1/#comment-37861 Bryan Cristina Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:01:12 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=713#comment-37861 Sure, nice tools can't fix bad data, but if you're going to ride into hell, at least have a sweet ride on the way there. Sure, nice tools can’t fix bad data, but if you’re going to ride into hell, at least have a sweet ride on the way there.

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