When it Comes to BI and Analytics, Microsoft is Leading the Pack

This has been a banner year for Microsoft BI and Analytics.  Microsoft Power BI continue that strong momentum in the third quarter when it was recognized as a leader in the Forrester Wave report for Enterprise BI Platforms (Vendor-Managed), Q3...

Categories: Microsoft Solutions

Tags: Business Intelligence, Microsoft, Power BI, Analytics, Gartner Magic Quadrant, Enterprise BI Platforms

How to Maximize the Full Product Lifecycle by Improving Your Data IQ

How would you rate the quality of your products?  And how well are you at selling them?  Like most leading manufacturers, you probably rate yourself highly on these two questions.  But how would you rate yourself at maximizing your aftermarket...

Categories: Manufacturing Industry Insights, eBooks + Infographics + Video

Tags: Business Intelligence, Data Science, Aftermarket, Data IQ, Service Lifecycle

Are You Getting Your Fair Share of Your Aftermarket Business?

Identify performance gaps in your existing customer portfolio and win back your share of the aftermarket. Manufacturers know they’re leaving money on the table in the aftermarket by not fulfilling the full life-cycle potential of their products. In this video, we show you how...

Categories: Microsoft Solutions, eBooks + Infographics + Video

Tags: Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Azure, Power BI, Analytics, Pinpoint Sales for Aftermarket™

So What Does a Data Scientist Do, Anyway? [podcast]

Recently on his podcast, ‘Power BI & More’, Ulrik Carlsson sat down with Matt Lamb to discuss Matt’s work in Data Science & Commercial Analytics for eLogic.  Listen to how a data scientist defines the...

Categories: Microsoft Solutions, Business Intelligence, eBooks + Infographics + Video

Tags: Business Intelligence, Microsoft, Machine Learning, Power BI, Analytics, Data Science

Getting Started with IoT: Connected

Connected...This one word is reshaping our personal and business lives.  Industry projections consistently show that by 2020 there will be 200 billion connected “things” in the Internet of Things (IoT).  So, the IoT boom reflects a seismic shift in how manufacturers are moving to sensor and connect their products and shift their business models.  At the heart of this, leaders are rethinking strategies and figuring out how their organizations can win the future by launching new product and service initiatives. 

Categories: Manufacturing Industry Insights, Business Intelligence

Tags: Business Intelligence, IoT

Sales Needs Data Science, too.

One may be curious:  Is data science impacting sales processes and methodologies?  For a function spearheading enterprise revenue generation, herein stands an opportunity for applied machine learning, an infrequently discussed application; it is not the...

Categories: Microsoft Solutions

Tags: Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Azure

The Time is Now – From Watching to Action on Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

Insights into intelligence, acceleration, and accessibility of digital superiority for manufacturers I’m flying back from Microsoft’s 2018 Executive Industry Summit (EIS), and I need to capture my excitement about what has happened – and continues to happen –...

Categories: Manufacturing Industry Insights

Tags: Business Intelligence, Connected Field Service, Customer Engagement, Field Service, Manufacturing, Microsoft, Systems of Intelligence, Machine Learning

Sharpen the Saw: Sell Smarter with Self-Service BI

Fans of Stephen Covey's work, "7 Rules for High Successful People" should recognize his last rule - Sharpen the Saw. For those who have not read it, his last rule relates to the quote often incorrectly attributed to Abraham Lincoln: "A woodsman was once asked,...

Categories: Microsoft Solutions, Business Intelligence

Tags: Business Intelligence