Collaborative BI or Collaborative Business Intelligence enables business users to query, report, and apply advanced collaborative analytics; though it is a known fact that each of the above has its limitations, and often it is difficult to uncover information on the cause and the impact of business problems and the corrective actions that could be taken. […]

iReport Template Designer is a tool that makes Jasper reports. A lot of us use default templates to create reports. We might have barely noticed that a custom report template is also available. In this blog, we will walk you through “Creating a Custom Report Template in iReport.” An iReport template is a predefined […]

Embedding BI is the process of adding rich data visualization and manipulation to an application by leveraging Jaspersoft’s BI suite in the design and coding of an application. All of the following can be achieved by embedding Jaspersoft BI: Reports that run on demand with output in your application or delivered in a file. […]

Bar charts are the most commonly used charts in Business Intelligence reports and dashboards. They are useful in summarizing the categorical variables or qualitative variables where the length of the bar is directly proportional to the value they represent. This post is one of many posts related to best practices in Data Visualization solutions. In […]

A Business Intelligence dashboard is a data visualization tool that displays the current status of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for an organization. Dashboards consolidate and arrange facts, metrics, and performance KPIs on a single screen. A Business Intelligence dashboard is a tool that is easy to read, often a single-page, real-time user interface, […]

Jaspersoft Report gives interactive, pixel-perfect, and ad-hoc-based reports for the web, printer, and mobile devices. Jaspersoft and Pentaho use Google Map Markers to improve the maps, which is an important KPI for information authors. Updates of the actual map can be seen by millions of people on Google Maps. DEFTeam provides various […]

The need to adopt Business Intelligence (BI) by organizations to make smarter, faster, and more informed decisions is increasing with the increased competition. Thanks to the challenging economic environment that led to the advent of Business Intelligence into the array of IT Solutions. Access to information is what gives companies a competitive edge and allows them […]

In order to deploy the Clustering JasperReports Server in a production environment with high-availability, scalable, and fault-tolerant service and provide uninterrupted services to clients without any failover or downtime, DEFTeam has successfully implemented and served its customers with an ideal solution of Load Balancing of Clustering JasperReports Server Repository with Database Clustering. Cluster environment […]

TIBCO Spotfire is a prime example of a high-quality and sophisticated visualization tool. It helps businesses make informed decisions for future growth and predicts key performance indicators (KPIs), offering valuable insights from complex data. With TIBCO Spotfire, businesses can identify opportunities, understand where they are headed, and much more. […]

1) List all the possible combinations for drawing a scatterplot for given data with best practices in Data Visualization 2) Your manager has asked you to make a presentation that will be showcased to more than 100 people. Which color palette would be more appropriate for the given audience? 3) Which color palette would you choose […]

Line and bar charts are the most common types of charts used in BI reports and dashboards. In the given figure below, there are three line charts. Try to figure out which of these Data Visualization choosing a line chart or bar chart are inappropriate. Line charts should be used when quantitative variables change over a […]

Change Data Capture (CDC) is the process of capturing changes made at the data source level and applying them throughout the enterprise. CDC minimizes the resources required for ETL (extract, transform, load) processes because it only deals with data changes. The goal of CDC is to ensure data synchronicity. There are […]

Big Data Analytics Tools is making the buzz nowadays. Every single enterprise, organization, etc., seems to be gathering it, evaluating it, making money from it and tapping its powers. Whether we’re talking about interpreting millions of data collected for a product launch or an uncountable number of hotel package stats to find the best time […]

In Parallel R Programming, the foreach package provides a new looping construct, which is used to execute a series of statements repeatedly. This looping construct performs the same work that is done by other looping constructs such as for and while. But the main advantage of the foreach Parallel Processing in R is that it can […]

A Domain is a virtual view, created and stored on the server without modifying the data source. Through a Domain, users see columns that have been joined, filtered, and labeled for their business needs. Security policies limit the data values users can access through a Domain. Domain presents the data in business terms appropriate to […]