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Idea for new year resolution - IBI

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In case anyone is looking for an idea for new year's resolution, I would like to suggest IBI (Individual Business Intelligence). You probably have tried to know yourself socially, religiously, spiritually, etc., and probably failed. Give a try to know yourself better factually with IBI.  For the past 313 days I have spent around 5 to 7 minutes every single day to capture data (quantitative and qualitative) about me, range of data points (dreams, ideas, movie time, work hours, family time, health, etc.) that I think are important to me.  Have I made lot of money with this? No, in fact I make 40% less money than I used to make after I switched to part-time work.  If money is the only thing that drives you, this won't make much sense.  I have this feeling that everything is connected but we don't see the connections, the deeper we go, the more connections we will see.  I don't want to bore you with my personal data, but at the same time I want to create awaren
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Business Intelligence Jobs, skills and tools analysis report

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Independent, unsponsored and unbiased exploration and analysis of current trends in business intelligence jobs, skills and tools in demand based on reliable, verifiable and real BI job requirements. Several days of hard work (with passion, without obligation and hence very joyful), and lots of learning in the process. And business intelligence jobs, skills and tools analysis report published today. Full report available on Reportpedia   for free download.  Happy holidays and happy reading.
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KABI webinar invite

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Agile software development team? bored of stand-ups? do you feel stand-up has become more of an attendance marker? Give DDAS (Daily demo and sync-up) a try, see  KABI for details.  First public KABI introductory webinar on 14th December 3 PM CET,  if interested join online meeting at  https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/anoopkumarvk, no registration required.
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Best Report Contest - Looking for Data or BI enthusiasts

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Reportpedia requires 2 more volunteer data or BI enthusiasts to be part of the best report selection committee to carry out totally unbiased review and selection in the first of its kind report contest https://www.reportpedia.com/contest. Contact me if you are interested or share with people who you think would do justice to this role. Participants cannot be in the committee in the month they are participating.
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Best Report Contest

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Reportpedia has launched first of its kind contest, a series of monthly best report contest starting from Dec 2017. Every month there will be a winner (best report of the month) who will get recognized, win prizes including cash prizes. Also, a chance to win the mega prize Best Report of the Year.  For more details check out the Best Report Contest page. Analyze publicly available data, share information and insights with worldwide audience, help someone out there get curios about a topic or force them to think. Get recognition, win prizes and enter winners' photo gallery.
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ETL developer vs Data engineer

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Rephrased question : ETL developer vs Data engineer Answer : Unfortunately there are no strict industry standards on these job titles. That is just one part of it. Before ETL tools such as DataStage, Informatica, Ab Initio, etc., became popular, developers were hand coding every ETL flow. These ETL tools shortened the ETL flow development time to a great extent and allowed ETL developers to focus on business rule/logic/requirement (what to implement) than how to code it or optimize the code. There are many other benefits of using a tool but I won’t go into that in this answer. So an ETL developer with experience in these tools without any programming (coding) experience was/is able to design and develop end to end data flows. Whenever new types of source/target data format comes up, these tools catch up but it takes time, i.e., the ETL tool provider (e.g. Microsoft, IBM, etc.,) adds new components/connectors within the ETL tool to be able to work with new data format. For example, let’
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KABI - The new Agile Methodology for BI Projects - Implement BI projects quicker happily

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KABI is a new agile software development methodology useful for achieving quicker implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. The methods defined in KABI can also be used in full or in part for any other non BI projects that share similar characteristics as BI development projects.  The word KABI is created by combining "KA" from KA nban and "BI" from B usiness I ntelligence. KABI is a lightweight, iterative, continuous feedback based agile software development methodology that enables every team member to work to their full potential even when there are several unknowns, resource constraints, dependencies and unpredictability of work load. Thereby KABI ensures optimal team productivity throughout the project duration. At the heart of KABI is " Peer Inspiration ".  Every team member plays an important role and every team member works in an exemplary way. They do their part of the job so well that it inspires the whole team. " Mutual
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BI Architect course and BI Tool question

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