Business Intelligence
Data Careers: Dealing With Being in a Cost Center
Building a career in data often means building a career in a business cost center. This isn't necessarily bad. Here's how to think about it.
Business Intelligence
LLM Is Not Enough (For Self-Service Analytics)
Introduction A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced a new data analytics product called Fabric. One of Fabric’s most exciting features is …
New at Holistics
Press Release: Holistics Achieved Select Tier Partner Status with Snowflake
Holistics.io the self-service BI platform, announced that it has achieved Select Tier partner status as part of the Snowflake Partner Network
Best Alternatives to Looker Studio (Google Data Studio) Alternatives
Looker Studio (previously Google Data Studio) is a reporting tool that nicely integrates within GA360 ecosystem (alongside Google BigQuery and Google Sheet) …
Business Intelligence
Data Modeling
How Would An Ideal Semantic Layer Look Like?
Most data practitioners I talked to agree on two things. * We need an abstraction layer to define metrics consistently and rigorously. * We …
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It's Official, Holistics Is Now SOC2 Compliant
As a provider of business intelligence software, we understand the importance of maintaining the highest standards of security and trust. Our customers …
The Better Lightdash
If you want a BI tool that is architecturally similar to Looker, but more affordable and well-integrated with dbt, go for Lightdash. …
Business Intelligence
How to run a Data Clinic (aka Data Office Hours)
Data clinic is one of many ways you create value and drive your organization toward better data literacy. Here's how.
Business Intelligence
Data analysts, think about your work from the business stakeholders perspective
As data analysts, we often do lots of work — writing SQL, modeling data, drawing charts, and building data presentations. We spent hours …