Blogs

With mission-critical apps and sensitive corporate data increasingly moving online cloud based Business Intelligence solutions and Financial Analytics are gaining prominence. Information Week 2015 Financial Analytics, BI & Information Management Survey findings show that cloud-based data warehousing services adoption jumped to 34% in 2015 from 24% in 2014. Other recent reports confirm that the top [...]

So, you have a bit of a situation here, trying to tackle unmapped master data management values in your ETL stream! Let’s take the specific example of general ledger accounts extracted from financial module of your ERP or transactional system. How to provide options to the users to map unmapped [...]

Data Quality implementation using Pentaho Data Integration It is important in the context of Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence. This blog focuses on why this is important and how it can be implemented using Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) Importance of integrating quality data to Enterprise [...]

If you are used to saying, “Ok Google” or “Hey Alexa”, you should read this right now! GrayMatter presents speech-driven analytics so that you no longer need to query your data warehouse / database, nor do you have to drag and drop! You just need to speak! The advancement in [...]

In this blog I intend to explain why and how MetaData Ingestion feature can be implemented to parameterize ETL using Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle). The blog also covers how this approach is beneficial from a project development stand point. Illustrative Scenario Let us assume a use case of a DW/BI [...]

Business Intelligence and Analytics is a dynamic space with rapidly changing end user needs, evolving solutions and constant enhancements in underlying tools and technologies. More often than not, foresight helps in keeping you ready and prepared for the future data analytics trends and developments in the world of BI and [...]

Persistency is a key driver for successful insurance business. You just cannot let your existing customers churn; Data science proactive alerts and actions are necessary to address policy lapse. GrayMatter’s Center of Excellence for Data Science (GMCoE-DS) is focused on predictive insights driven value for businesses. Insurance lapse prediction is one such typical use [...]