Jim Kanzler has more than 25 years of working at the leading edge of Business Intelligence Solutions. Jim is responsible for leading Meta5 and ensuring the satisfaction of our clients. Please connect to Jim on http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimkanzler
Hello and Welcome to our latest Blog post. Thank you very much for dropping by, we really appreciate you! Today we are going to cover in some detail how Meta5 can be used to create what we have nicknamed “Excel Data Mart Dashboards”. We all know Excel 365 is taking the world by
Hello and welcome to our latest Blog Post. Thank you very much for dropping by, we really appreciate you! In this Blog entry we will share with you a recent customer success story. The customer is a long term client of a former Metaphor user who provides financial advice for the customer. When
Hello and welcome to our latest Blog Post. Thank you very much for dropping by, we really appreciate you! Today we are going to cover in some detail the typical issues of ERP Business Intelligence. For the purposes of this blog post we will not talk about SAP and Oracle Applications because
Hi, welcome back to our blog! Thank you for dropping by. Today we are releasing a brand new video to give you a small taste of what you can do with Meta5 Starter Edition. To give you that small taste we are showing you how Meta5 can integrate with Office tools and create Excel based […]
Jim Kanzler will be speaking again at the Philadelphia chapter of DAMA, just in case you missed his presentation last month in New York City. Jim will be presenting the same presentation on The Emerging Importance of the Power Data Analyst. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a founder of
A little while ago I posted a blog entry about the Management Decision Making Process. You can re-read this article on this link. The slide to recall from this blog entry is this one. Today I want to talk about “Deciding and Investing”. For all of my 30 year career in IT there has been […]
As you can read on this link we recently co-sponsored a very successful conference here in New York City. It was a great conference and all attendees reported very positively on the conference. We were very pleased to be a part of it. At the conference I gave a one hour presentation about the
We all know the line from the star wars trilogy. I would find it hard to believe that there are many people who work in the highly technical area of data analysis who has not heard the line: “Luke: I am your father.” And that is an entertaining way to introduce this interesting possibility. It
In this series of blog posts we are going to outline why Meta5 is good for IT. If you have questions or comments? Please leave them below. We will address them as the blog series evolves. Over the last 30 years there has been a constant tension between Business and IT. It was certainly
I am often asked “Jim, what makes your product so unique? Net it out for me.” The “elevator answer” is this. “The unique capsule environment allows business people to build their own applications for sophisticated data analysis without programming and without IT intervention. This makes them
There are two names that stand above all others in the Business Intelligence Business. They are Bill Inmon and Dr. Ralph Kimball. Both have contributed greatly to our industry. Our industry is richer for their efforts of over 30 years. I recently had the opportunity to meet Bill Inmon face to
Meta5 customers long asked us for a product that would unleash the power of Meta5 in a portal environment. This is easier said than done! However, our developers were up to the challenge and have now delivered the first version of our Meta5 Portal. We have not updated the branding on the logos
Excel. The very mention of it drives some IT people crazy! IT people have been making up less than glowing names for sets of Excel spreadsheets for a while now. We heave all heard: Excel Hell – Referring to widespread use of Excel in a company. Spreadmarts – Referring to building reporting
As you can read on the blog entitled Big Data in the Big Apple, we recently co-sponsored a very successful conference here in New York City. It was a great conference and all attendees reported very positively on the conference. We were very pleased to be a part of it. At the conference I gave
As you can read on this link we recently co-sponsored a very successful conference here in New York City. It was a great conference and all attendees reported very positively on the conference. We were very pleased to be a part of it. At the conference I gave a one hour presentation about the
In our last blog entry we went a little bit deeper in to the characteristics and the role of what we call the “Power Data Analyst”. We see these people all the time in the companies that we work with. You will not find any large companies that do not have a small contingent of […]
In our last blog entry we used the term “Power Data Analyst” to describe the sort of person who performs the work of “Why” and “What if” in the management decision making process. You might be wondering who these people are and what do they do. You might even be one without knowing it! The […]
With this blog entry we start a series of educational blog entries to explain some of the basic concepts of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and what has been called “Big Data”. We are constantly surprised that many people do not have a handle on some of the simpler ideas and we would
Well, we’ve had a day to get back in the office after our “Big Data in the Big Apple” conference last week. What a great success it was too! Bill “the father of data warehousing” Inmon gave a full days class of insights on Thursday and on Friday a great key note presentation. On Wednesday […]
Hello and welcome to our new, state of the art, web site. We hope you enjoy the experience we are going to bring you with our new site. Over the last few months we have been busy designing and developing our site to give our visitors a unique experience in the world of “Big Data”. […]