Business Intelligence
When Doing Digital Transformation, Think Capabilities, Not Maturity
Why maturity models can be a bad idea, and why using a capability model is a better idea for digital transformation.
Business Intelligence
How to Measure Software Development, from ‘Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps’
Tracking the performance of your software development team is really, really difficult. The 2018 book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps gives us a fantastic way to measure just that. Here's how.
Business Intelligence
Why Measuring Cash Flow is More Important Than Measuring Profitability
Why your CEO is so obsessed with cash flow metrics, and what you can do to help as an analytics person in your company.
Inner Join
What It's Like Being a Growth Hunter Intern at Holistics
This is one of the #lifeatholistics stories written by our Intern graduate.
Business Intelligence
The Two Philosophies of Cost in Data Analytics
There appears to be two philosophies today when it comes to managing costs in a modern data stack. We explore what they are.
Inner Join
What It's Like Being a Designer Intern at Holistics
Creative designer intern Teo shares his experiences working at Holistics Indonesia.
Business Intelligence
Business Fundamentals
Developing an Intuitive Understanding of the SaaS Quick Ratio
An explanation of the SaaS Quick Ratio that focuses on the intuition behind the metric. Written with the data analyst in mind.
Business Intelligence
Data Modeling
OLAP != OLAP Cube
There's a tendency for people to conflate OLAP with OLAP cube. We take a quick look at how this happens, why it shouldn't, and why it matters if you're a data practitioner.
Business Intelligence
Data Modeling
The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube
A definitive history of the rise of the OLAP cube, how it's affected our industry, and what comes after.