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Modern Analytics Framework Series – Part 1: Things to know if you’ve been delaying analytics modernization

Today’s companies have no shortage of data. In fact, they have more than ever before. And they know that, hiding in that data, are insights for better business decisions and competitive superiority. But even with all the investments…

Data Science

Top 4 Data Science Sessions of 2020: Part 3 of Take30’s One-Year Anniversary

Ironside’s Take30 with a Data Scientist series was typically targeted towards business leaders, with topics focused on strategy, including use-case development advice, de-risking AI with Data Science-as-a-Service, and ways to overcome common…

Business Analytics, Featured

Top 5 BI Expert Sessions of 2020: Part 2 of Take30’s One-Year Anniversary

Looking back now that we’ve reached the one year anniversary of the Take30, we appreciated the opportunity to share our perspective on a range of Business Intelligence (BI) topics with a wide and diverse audience. The topics…

Business Analytics, Data Management, Data Science, Featured

Top 5 Data Advisor Sessions of 2020: Part 1 of Take30’s One-Year Anniversary

The Ironside Take30 webinar series premiered on April 16th, 2020, with the goal to share expert dialog across a variety of data and analytics related topics to a wide range of audiences. The series has three primary dialog categories, each…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

The Power of Embedding Analytics

The integration of BI solutions within business process applications or interfaces has become a modern standard. Over the past two decades, Business Intelligence has dramatically transformed how data could be used to drive business and how…

Featured

Ironside appoints Paul Hardy to Executive Vice President of Professional Services

Ironside, a Boston enterprise data and analytics service firm, announced this week the appointment of Paul Hardy to Executive Vice President of Services. He has been promoted to this role following his tenure as Vice President of Advisory Services.…

Business Analytics

Power BI – Best Practices for Metadata Modeling using Composite Models

Microsoft recently released one of the most sought after features for Power BI. As of the December 2020 update, there is a new preview feature that allows you to build a partitioned metadata model in Power BI. Formally called “DirectQuery…

Data Science

Getting Started with AI: Four Things to Consider

So you’re thinking that 2021 is the year to infuse Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) into your business. You’ve read about the difference it’s making in other organizations. You want to beat -- or keep pace with -- your…

Business Analytics

Natural Language Query – How Today’s Top Vendors Use It

What is Natural Language Query? Natural Language Query is the ability to use natural language expressions to discover and understand data and accelerates the process of finding answers that data can provide. Another way to think about it…

Awards & Recognition

Ironside Achieves AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Status

Boston, MA, October 22, 2020 — Ironside, a Boston-based cloud, data, and analytics consultancy, today announced it is now an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Consulting Partner. AWS Consulting Partners help customers design, architect,…

Technology Spotlight

Highlight Alternating Rows in a Report Using IBM Cognos Analytics (11.1.7)

For users of IBM Cognos Analytics a popular request is to highlight alternating rows in a report. This article will demonstrate how to achieve this result using the list container and the property Conditional Styles. In order to create the…

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Ironside is happy to announce our new Senior Solutions Architect focusing on Cloud and Data Engineering, Customer Success and Operational Excellence. Srinivasa Meka has wide working experience developing analytic solutions at organizations of all sizes.

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