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How To Choose An ELT Tool: 6 Key Considerations

Avatar photo Anders Schneiderman Feb 2, 2021
ETL and ELT

You’re building a new data solution for your business, and you need an ELT tool to make storing and analyzing data more manageable. You’ve read a ton of articles and talked to a bunch of folks about what they use.…

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How to Connect & Sync MySQL Data to Power BI (Step-by-Step)

Avatar photo Shaun Kahler Feb 1, 2021
BI and Data Visualization

Power BI and MySQL. The beloved BI tool and dependable database go together like peanut butter and jelly…or data and analysis.To help make that powerful partnership easier, we’ll walk you through two ways to connect Power BI and MySQL so…

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Top BI Tools Of 2021—And How To Choose The Right One

Avatar photo Adam Murphy Jan 22, 2021
BI and Data Visualization

You’ve got valuable data. But it’s useless if you don’t use it. A key piece in unlocking the power in your data is using an excellent Business Intelligence (BI) tool. BI tools enable you to create beautiful visualizations and dashboards…

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Top BI Tools: 25 Business Intelligence Options

Avatar photo Adam Murphy Jan 22, 2021
BI and Data Visualization

You’ve got valuable data. But it’s useless if you don’t use it. A key piece in unlocking the power in your data is using an excellent Business Intelligence (BI) tool. BI tools enable you to create beautiful visualizations and dashboards…

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How To Nail Your New Year’s Resolution To Actually Learn SQL This Time

Avatar photo Panoply Jan 21, 2021
Data Warehousing

Maybe you’re a business analyst who’s sick of not being able to level up your Power BI reports. Or maybe your New Year’s resolution is that this is the year you’ll finally buckle down and master SQL.And now, with the…

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Five Snowflake Alternatives: Complexity and Costs

Avatar photo Andrew Zola Jan 20, 2021
Data Warehousing

Although Snowflake hasn’t generated $1b in annual revenues (yet), the company continues to hog the headlines for potentially delivering a historic payout to Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Continue reading Five Snowflake Alternatives: Complexity and Costs

Top Klipfolio Alternatives: Tools to Manage Your Marketing Data

Avatar photo Andrew Zola Jan 19, 2021
BI and Data Visualization

Klipfolio is a robust cloud-based BI/dashboarding tool developed especially for small and medium-sized businesses. The platform’s primary goal is to enable data visualization, and as such, it offers users a variety of options.  While Klipfolio is super flexible and seamlessly integrates…

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Top 5 Fivetran Alternatives: Weighing Complexity and Cost

Avatar photo Panoply Jan 14, 2021
ETL and ELT

In an era where data is king, the race is on to make access to data as reliable and straightforward as everyday utilities. One company leading the way is cloud-native ETL platform and automated data integration provider, Fivetran. Listed in Forbes…

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Snowflake vs Redshift Ecosystems & Pricing: Data Warehouse Comparison

Avatar photo Ben Rogojan Jan 9, 2021
Data Warehousing Redshift

Data has become the lifeblood of business and data warehouses are an essential part of that. But knowing which data warehouse makes sense for your business can be tricky.Today, we continue our discussion of modern data warehouses as we compare…

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How to Coach Your Startup to Choose Better Metrics

Avatar photo Anders Schneiderman Dec 21, 2020
Being Data-Driven Best Practices

There’s no cookie-cutter way to choose metrics that will work for all startups. In fact, what the history shows us is that everybody who’s tried to come up with a better metrics framework has made progress but has ultimately failed…

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KPIs, OKRs, OMTM: The History of Modern Metrics & Why It Matters for Analysts

Avatar photo Panoply Dec 17, 2020
Being Data-Driven Best Practices

As an analyst, you probably spend a lot of your time creating dashboards and other reports to help your teams and Top Brass track metrics. And you probably spend at least some of this time grinding your teeth, because you…

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Webinar Recap: The Scalability Paradox with Nathan Patrick Taylor

Avatar photo Anders Schneiderman Dec 14, 2020
Analytics Leadership Data Stack Data Warehousing

Recently, Panoply held a webinar with Nathan Patrick Taylor, the CIO of the Symphony Post Acute Network. The focus of the webinar was on what Nathan calls the scalability paradox—the dilemma of focusing too early or too much on scalability,…

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  1. Defining the scalability paradox
  2. The long, winding road to building a data stack
  3. "Now we can do the cool stuff": Doing predictive analytics with a data team of two
  4. Advice for a building career in data
  5. Wrap up
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