Speed and quality are suffering We are in a new era where data is highly available. In addition, we have shiny new tools that help us make use of this data in ways we’ve never been able to before. Data scientists in tech firms and traditional businesses can quickly access, shape

The other day, we were thinking back to our first custom SDK project. I thought it might be interesting to share how it started. And, as with many things it started with a client coming to us with a problem… The Problem: We have been engaged to develop a dashboard for a client.  One o

Project X Ltd & Project X Labs Ltd Offering Our BEST Ever GeoDash Promotion at MicroStrategy World 2016 Show with the Release of GeoDash 3 & GeoDash 3M Make sure you come by the Project X Ltd exhibitor booth (#308) at MicroStrategy World 2016 taking place February 8-10 in Miam

Just before Halloween I had the opportunity to travel down to Tysons Corner, Virginia and attend the Partner Sales Academy at MicroStrategy headquarters. As a MicroStrategy Partner, we not only have the opportunity to promote and work with a best in class BI tool, we also get to parti

First a brief personal history of data warehousing time. In 1987, I started working with relational database systems when they were in their infancy.  We tried to build OLTP and OLAP systems on single relational databases, client server platforms.  It didn’t go so well.  By the

This is a question that comes up all the time. I was recently away at a conference where we discussed this topic in great detail for a couple of hours and at the end I think we had a view of the concept of big data, but no common definition. One of the funniest analogies of big data w

One of the interesting conversations we had at our recent client offsite, ConneXions, was about challenges and strategies for finding the right BI and Analytics staff.  Success, it would appear, takes strategic thinking, proactive behaviour, and creativity. The Talent Management Chall