Recent TRG blog posts

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 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

The Business Intelligence and Data Analytics market has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. The most recognisable one is the shift to self-service solutions, i.e. those capable of empowering ordinary business users to understand data and turn it into insights with little technical skills required.

Blog Topics: Business Intelligence

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

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

The real estate industry, for the most part, has not been well known for being technology intensive. This nature may soon disappear, however. Data analytics is transforming how real estate companies, customers, and financial institutions do business in this industry.

Blog Topics: Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Business Intelligence

"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

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

In the last post, three out of five aspects of a successful operational BI platform were discussed. The last two, pointed out by Aberdeen Group in its 2010 report, are technology and performance management.

Blog Topics: Business Intelligence

Being able to utilise timely data to make game-changing decisions is what companies hope to achieve. That is why they look to implementing Business insights tools and a sound BI strategy. The success of an operational BI platform depends on a combination of specific capabilities and technology enablers (Aberdeen, 2010). In this blog, we will go over the first 3 factors: process, organisation and knowledge management.

Blog Topics: Business Intelligence