At Acrotrend we always like to have an opinion on things. This time around, we were asked to provide our view on how our partner, business intelligence software company, Looker, has been evolving to enhance its offering. Looker is currently going through the process...
Visualisation
Don’t drown in data!
If data is the new water, check out our latest infographic that will sweetly explain how not to drown in it!
4 important ways data visualisation will boost your business
Data visualisation makes sense out of complex data and enables real-time business decisions. Breaking information down into logical and meaningful chunks helps users avoid information overload by keeping things simple, relevant and clear. There are 4 important ways...
How to: customise Looker Actions & make them work for you
This is a tale of a hero visualisation platform, Looker is its name. Making insights actionable is its fantastic game! As Looker says, with Looker Actions, you can analyse and act on your data. You can do everything from engaging with your users to updating records...
How INSIGHT drives Stranger Things’ success
Last time we looked at how data is at the heart of Netflix’s success in helping them to predict successful movies and TV shows. If you missed that post, you can read it here. As we move through the DATA > INSIGHT > ACTION loop, this blog post deep-dives further...
A Introduction to Looker for Developers
An introduction to accelerating analysis and sharing insights with Looker’s data platform.
Business Intelligence Modernisation
Have you seen the story of Tim and Liz and their BI adventure? Take the first step on your own BI adventure by downloading our BI Modernisation Accelerator. Then contact us on enquiries@acrotrend.com or +44 208 123 3208 to take action.
Don’t be a BI has-been!
Based on our extensive experience managing projects to create reports and dashboards, or enabling ad hoc analysis on legacy BI stacks such as OBIEE or SAP Business Objects, organisations we have worked with (within 12 weeks) typically save a massive 75% in people days...
Acrotrend works its magic to win the Looker London Hackathon!
Last month Acrotrend beat off around 50 competitors from 10 other organisations to win the Looker London Hackathon, which was aimed at building innovative solutions using Looker. What is Looker? Looker is a data & analytics platform for enterprises. It helps...
Looker Deep Dive: Looks and Dashboards
In earlier blogs we gave an introduction on Looker and in the subsequent one discussed about some advanced functionalities available in LookML. In this blog we will cover the visualization layer of Looker and will talk about some unique possibilities from the same....