If Tesla Motors is to achieve the aggressive goal of making 1 million cars by 2020 set out by its CEO Elon Musk, it will partly be because of the application of data analytics in its manufacturing operations.
Recent TRG blog posts
Data Analytics for Manufacturing: the Tesla’s Case Study (Part 1)
Posted by Thai Pham on Sun, Apr 30, 2017
Blog Topics: Business Intelligence, Analytics
[Infographic] 10 most valuable technical skills
Posted by Rick Yvanovich on Tue, Mar 28, 2017
A study by the jobs analytics firm Burning Glass has revealed which business skills saw the fastest-growing demand between 2011 and 2015 by analysing millions of job ads on more than 40,000 career websites.
Blog Topics: Talent Management, Business Intelligence, Analytics
Tableau 10.2 is now available in the cloud
Posted by Rick Yvanovich on Thu, Mar 2, 2017
Tableau 10.2 is now available for Tableau Online, the cloud-based business analytics platform for enterprises. The other two Tableau offerings, Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server, will soon be running with this latest version as well. Users can still use their current versions of Tableau Desktop to publish to their Tableau Online 10.2 sites.
Blog Topics: Business Intelligence, Analytics
Analytics Software Empowers Financial Shared Services Centre
Posted by Rick Yvanovich on Sun, Feb 5, 2017
The adoption of Financial Shared Services Centre has revolutionised the strategic roles of the finance function in global corporations by delivering more added value to other functions and processes via their analytics and decision-making capabilities. Such centres have evolved to not only focus on traditional tasks, such as costs reduction but also enhance organisations’ effectiveness and efficiency in many ways.
Blog Topics: Financial Accounting Management Software, Business Intelligence, Analytics
3 Ways to Weather the Perfect Storm of Corporate Reporting
Posted by Rick Yvanovich on Wed, Dec 21, 2016
A global survey by EY, which gathered data from 1,000 finance executives in businesses with revenue greater than US$500 million, finds that the level of CFO’s confidence in their corporate reporting is significantly lower than last year.
Blog Topics: Financial Accounting Management Software, Business Intelligence, Analytics
Business Intelligence in Manufacturing Industry
Posted by Ho Nguyen on Mon, Mar 7, 2016
"Changes start from knowing what you are actually doing"
The manufacturing industry is exposing to a more volatile and fragmented business environment than ever. To change or to die is the only option that they can do. But where to start and how to do it? From our point of view, it should start with the acknowledgement of operation processes of both internal and external environments. This post will shed some light on new challenges to manufacturing industry and solutions that BI can help to resolve it.
Blog Topics: Business Intelligence, Analytics
Enterprise Performance Metrics – When Less is More
Posted by Rick Yvanovich on Fri, Feb 26, 2016
Much is written about the significance of metrics on tracking the execution of strategy and operational effectiveness. However, many executives find the plethora of metrics to be overwhelming and costly to track. “What key metrics should I track and why?” is one of the commonly asked questions. Although there is no such easy answer to this issue, the principle of “less is more” usually holds true.
Blog Topics: Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Business Intelligence, Analytics
Building a BI Strategy: Taming Data to Gather Information Power
Posted by Thai Pham on Thu, Jan 15, 2015
Gartner’s 2008 CIOs survey highlighted that Business Intelligence (BI) is now one of the top priorities in business. BI is known to have positive impact on business performance of an enterprise, dramatically improving the ability to accomplish the mission by making timely and smart decisions at any level of the business.
Blog Topics: Business Intelligence, Analytics
An Introduction to Data Management and Democratisation
Posted by Thai Pham on Thu, Feb 20, 2014
Knowledge is power. Knowledge is everything to make things happen, and eventually, going smooth and strong, straight to success! For many years, knowledge has been an eternal goal and target of mankind, not to mention businesses. Without knowledge, which in this context is business visibility and business insights, companies cannot know if they are succeeding or failing, and may get lost forever.
Blog Topics: Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Business Intelligence, Analytics