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As CFOs continue to focus on resilience, data-driven decision making and analysis will be critical.

In the final installment of a three-part series on what’s next for work, we break down the big trends powering productivity growth.

Amid COVID-19, companies face the challenge of providing a safe working environment for their employees while continuing to maintain productivity and efficiency. The pandemic has forced the busines...

Throughout 2020, BDO Digital worked with Microsoft to produce a number of informative webinars to help companies meet the challenges of this tumultuous year. Webinars covered topics such as Managi...

According to BDO’s latest white paper, Getting from A to AI - The Path to Data Analytics Maturity , organizations need a combination of the right architecture, analytics, and artificial intelligen...

In a crowded Silicon Valley auditorium, two opponents met on stage to debate. On one side of the stage stood Harish Natarajan, world record-holding debate champion. On the other was “Miss Debat...

Data analytics combined with artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way businesses understand their current performance, plan for future growth, and most importantly, react to crises. Check o...

The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened the health of our communities, businesses and the global economy. The stakes are too high to allow room for error when decision-making is often a matter of l...

These are trying times for real estate investors, landlords, and tenants alike. The COVD-19 pandemic has undoubtedly introduced financial stress to all, but from many different perspectives. Prio...

Artificial intelligence (AI) generally receives notice from its usual users - government, large tech organizations and academics. However, researchers and developers are increasingly using AI and...

COVID-19 has rapidly and irrevocably reshaped the global business climate. Virtually overnight, restaurants and bars have shuttered their doors to customers, transitioning to delivery and take-ou...

Artificial Intelligence has taken the world by storm and has expanded rapidly in recent years. Today, a growing number of industries are expanding their workflows and solving complex problems with...

“What is the best way to protect data in Office 365?” It’s a question we’re asked all the time. While turning on tools and enabling functionality can be simple, the real challenge is planning fo...

According to The Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM’s) Human Capital Benchmarking Report , it costs an average of $4129 to hire one person. Organizations need to understand their hirin...

A recent study by the National Business Research Institute and Narrative Science found that most financial institutions are only in the beginning stages of cloud and AI adoption. In fact, only abo...

A Methodical Approach to Building Tomorrow Today Digital transformation goes far beyond more efficient operations. As middle market companies take steps towards automation, they should do so ...

Part 2: Unleashing Process Reimagined While there’s debate over whether the pace of change is truly accelerating, or if technology is really diversifying vs. accelerating, the timeline for middl...

The future of manufacturing will be defined by the technology companies are investing in today. But before they choose the solutions that are right for them, they have to first understand their go...

Since the announcement of Power BI dataflows in late 2018, I've had a desire to test it out and see what it could really do. I finally had the time and the proper use case to get into it and do so...

A picture is worth a thousand words – especially when it comes to your data! A data dashboard is an analytics tool that helps capture, track, and consume data in a way that is meaningful to your b...

Although organizations have accumulated more data than ever before, many businesses still struggle to understand what their data is telling them. Fraud analytics applies the latest technology and ...

We are in the middle of a tremendous period of change in how fraud investigations are conducted. This change is driven, in part, by the massive amount of data that has been collected and stored ov...

The growing complexity and capacity of business’ systems are making it difficult for investigators to understand, follow, and detect fraud. As data grows exponentially and spreads outside the orga...

Tabular cubes use advanced mashup and modeling features to combine data from multiple data sources, define metrics, and secure your data in a single, trusted tabular semantic data model. This allo...

Power BI was first made generally available in July 2015. Since then, Microsoft has released more than 400 features. While this rapid innovation is enabling users to sign up for services in second...

Did you know you can now interact with Power BI in Microsoft Teams? This is yet another feature that Microsoft 365 brings together to help make you and your users more productive. Why add a Power...

Over the last two years, 75% of all the world’s data was generated. However, the majority of companies are only leveraging about 12% of the data that’s available to them. With an abundance of data...

With the introduction of value-based care, hospitals and physicians will be paid based on patient outcomes rather than fee-for-service healthcare. This new reform could be a game-changer in helpin...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a new concept – it’s been around since 1956. For decades, we’ve seen the hype around machine-based learning play out in movies, such as Star Wars, The Terminato...

Power BI Desktop is an outstanding tool for ad-hoc analysis of structured and unstructured data. While its toolset can help you cleanse and transform all that data, it is up to you to figure out w...

With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology, the power of data has grown tremendously over the years. Innovative cloud offerings are enabling companies of ...

In the 2018 Tech Insight Report, we asked business and IT executives, managers, and team members whether they believe that “business decisions should be based on data analytics.” Not surprisingly,...

Few can dispute that strategic business decisions should be based on data. With the cost of technology decreasing, and new innovative solutions making it easier than ever to leverage your data in ...

In the past, advanced data analytics was reserved for big companies who had the time and budget to commission a project of such magnitude. These companies could expect to spend up to 2 years worki...

In my last blog post (Gaining User Adoption in Data Analytics Projects - Part 1), I discussed the critical role user adoption plays in becoming a data-driven organization. In this blog, we’ll iden...

In working with clients over the years, I’ve seen the same challenges emerge after the launch of a new data analytics solution – gaining user adoption . Invariably, every organizations runs into ...

From Money Ball to precision medicine, the media around data analytics has reached a fever pitch. Stories abound about how data science has been applied to win the World Series, make millions, and...

Today, we conclude our five-part Behind the Buzzword series! We’ve attempted to decode the often-confusing data analytic jargon out there today, looking at AI , Big Data , Predictive Analytic...

Part four of our five-part Behind the Buzzword series focuses on Machine Learning. We’ve peeked behind the curtain of Big Data and Predictive Analytics ; let’s now take a closer look at the f...

Welcome to part three of our five-part Behind the Buzzword series, where we discuss the definitions and practical application of some of the latest tech industry buzz-phrases in the world of Data ...

Welcome to part three of our five-part Behind the Buzzword series, where we discuss the definitions and practical application of some of the latest tech industry buzz-phrases in the world of Dat...

We’re back from the 2017 Tableau Conference hosted this year in Las Vegas where we joined 15,000 of our closest data-obsessed friends to talk Tableau and data analytics! BDO Digital was one of ove...

While nearly every business today recognizes the immense potential of leveraging big data to improve decision making, the majority (60%) of big data projects fail to go beyond piloting and experim...

Welcome to our five-part data analytics series: Behind the Buzzword , where we’ll explore common terminology from the data analytic world most frequently popping up in the news today. What do the...

Relative data slicer is a well-known feature of Power BI used to filter visualizations by relative time periods. While this tool is commonly used to help narrow down reports, traditional slicers c...

Got data analytics on the brain? Yeah, you and almost everyone else in the business world these days. Data analytics and visualization are changing the game when it comes to creating strategic ins...

We’re living in an age of great disruption, and we’re seeing it play out all around us. While large hotel chains like Hyatt and Wyndham were tinkering with reservation apps, Airbnb disrupted the e...

It wasn’t more than a few years ago that we were still waiting for cloud business intelligence (BI) solutions to reach maturity for mid-market customers to use. Sure, these types of solutions exis...

Over the past two decades, technology has dramatically changed the way businesses succeed. Now, more than ever, long-term business goals cannot be achieved without optimally leveraging technology ...

Increasingly, organizations want to capitalize on all of the data to which they have access by enforcing data quality standards, and standing up data visualization and analysis tools that will hel...

We are in the middle of a tremendous period of change in how we conduct business. This change is driven, in part, by the massive explosion of data and advanced analytics at our fingertips. With th...

Microsoft is continuing to bolster the features of its Power BI suite of business analytics tools. One of the newest features just released, Power BI Enterprise - Gateway (Preview), is particula...

The power of self-service analytics has dramatically changed the landscape of big data in the past few years. Long gone are the days, weeks, or even months spent harnessing and prepping data to ma...

Technical revolutions have been occurring at a breakneck pace these days. One only needs to read “ Popular Science ” to see all the amazing things happening in technology—from biotech to transport...

I’ll be the first to say that traditional/old school business intelligence does a great job of providing answers to the questions you know you want to ask. What if you don’t know the questions? ...

Many companies looking to implement a business intelligence solution come to us and ask which product is the best? The answer is – it depends on a variety of factors and what your organization n...

Today’s forward-leaning manufacturing companies are very agile and they’re making investments in their IT infrastructure. They’re investing in more applications and systems inside the firewall and...

Warning! If you are on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 or earlier, you may have entered the Microsoft world of “the end of mainstream support.” What does that mean for organizations using SQL Server ...