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May 16th, 2013
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The following blog post was originally published by Faizeen Khandaker, president Xtream IT, a Logi Analytics partner.

Changes are coming to the retail world. Big changes. And at Xtream, it’s vital for us to keep track of those changes, as we continue to fine tune our delivery of products and services to the Retail Marketing industries and their core data aggregators, the MSPs and MSOs in the Mystery Shoppping and Merchandising Service industries.

GigaOM had an amazing article in their paid content highlighting how technology will bring drastic changes to the showroom floor. The study outlines successes retailers have had by

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May 9th, 2013
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Our customers, at times, achieve an ROI from Logi Analytics technology that they’re able to accurately measure. In some cases, they’ve even won awards, such as Islington Council Parking Services and Grand Crowne Resorts.

But in many cases, customers are pleased with Logi, though they can’t ascribe numbers to the benefits. For example, Sterling Infosystems’ Vice President of Applications, Troy Whitlow, discusses achieving a dramatic productivity increase as well as rapid development with minimal IT investment. But he wasn’t able to tie numbers to it. (Trust me; I asked.)

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Apr 9th, 2013
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The most fervent fans of Logi Info tell us that they have transformed the end user experience and enhanced operational efficiency within their organization. Often, this is achieved by utilizing the platform’s unique ability to perform database write backs and to initiate business processes directly from a report or dashboard. In effect, analytics is providing not only the way for users to understand and interpret data, and also the interface by which to act on the information.

Here are three reasons for this ongoing trend:

The visual interface invites user interaction. Whether this is because we are all becoming accustomed to interacting with mobile devices, touch interfaces, or just drilling from report to report, the visual representation of data spurs the understanding of what is happening and stimulates the desire to do something based off the understanding. In conjunction…

Users need to act on the data, now. The speed of

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Apr 1st, 2013
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Happy April Fool’s Day. I laughed out loud at the news story, “Greeks may have to abandon their unique alphabet and embrace Latin characters under new plans that the troika promises will save the country millions every year.” 

I also found the new service, “Google Nose,” highly amusing. The promotional video is worth a watch too.

However, the title of one of our recent webinars, “Escaping Excel Hell,” is no joke. I think we can all relate. As our customer commented on my post on SSRS, “Tool selection is very much horses for courses.” There are