Vortisieze Technology

The Truth Finds A Way

One trend that continues to gain momentum in the BI world is self service business intelligence, and it has IT groups concerned that the whole focus of a BI team is to champion a single version of the truth. MicroStrategy just released it’s desktop application for free, and version 10.6 is now available. If you have not taken a look at it, it is worth spending some time on. Tableau has built…

Agreement Allows Vortisieze Technology to Resell TimeXtender’s Data Warehouse Automation

AARHUS, Denmark & BENTONVILLE, United States – September 2016 – TimeXtender, the world’s leading provider of data warehouse automation (DWA) software for Microsoft® SQL Server®, today announced a reseller partnership with Vortisieze. This agreement allows Vortisieze to offer the combined data warehouse and business intelligence package to their clients.   TimeXtender’s successful track record in…

Get A Data Scientist to Work On Your Problem For Free

According to the Consumer Goods Technology and RIS 2016 Analytics Study, 33% of companies lag behind their competitors in analytics skills and people, and 31% lag behind in analytics tools. In an effort to help, we are seeking CG companies that have a real data science need or question that they would like to see solved or automated, and we would like to help for free. Whats the catch? Well, we…

Demand Signal Data Hub

Analytics Platform to load retailer POS and inventory data and combine with weather, demographic, and supply chain data. Layer on MicroStrategy drag-and-drop reporting and you have the most powerful demand signal reporting platform on the market. This is the Vortisieze flagship product, designed to give CPG suppliers the capability to easily build your own BI reports and incorporating all of the…

NWA BI Meetup – Thursday, April 21

Hey NWA BI Data Ninjas! We’ve got a place, a date and time for our next meetup. Thursday, April 21st at 5:30 PM – at the Mars offices thanks to Chris. We have not locked in an agenda yet, so if you would like to present a project you are working on or have something you would like to see let me know. Also, you may have noticed that we have changed the user group name. 75% of the survey…

My Analytics Budget is $0, So Now What?

The reality is, that some companies just don’t have a big enough presence in Walmart to warrant any kind of real IT spend. It was a huge deal when they brought on their first full time analyst that has some experience, and is located in Bentonville so that they can meet with their buyers whenever they need to. You get your company issued laptop, with a fresh install of Microsoft Office, a…

Is there ever a perfect storm for suppliers?

In the article below, RetailWire talks with Weather Expert Paul Walsh on customer behavior, and what retailers are doing to balance things out. “What almost always happens when you get a big event like this is you really see three phases from a retailer perspective,” Walsh told Retail Dive. “Actually, it’s really from a consumer perspective, and the retailers’ job is to be ready for their…

Have You Tried Out Wavemaker Studio Yet?

If you are thinking about cross-platform mobile app development, chances are you have noticed the sea of products out there and may have come across Wavemaker. Wavemaker studio offers the promise of a cross-platform rapid application development environment for mobile and web. Using a drag-and-drop user interface to allow developers or non-developers a low barrier of entry in robust data driven…

28+ Category Management Articles To Improve Your Work in 2016

From the Category Management Learning Forum… 28 BLOG POSTS TO IMPROVE YOUR WORK IN 2016. 1. CatMan Overview-Back To The Foundations:http://blog.cmkg.org/blog/category-management-overview-back-to-the-foundations 2. Why be Retailer Centric in your CatMan Approach?:http://blog.cmkg.org/blog/retailer-strategy_why-be-retailer-centric-in-category-management 3. Category Definition: 3 Considerations For…

MicroStrategy 10.2 is Now Available

Per the MicroStrategy website: Release Highlights General workflow and stability enhancements Enterprise Manager is now independent from Operations Manager and HealthAgent Dynamic dates in Desktop/VI Quickly import custom visualizations created using the MicroStrategy Developer Library (MSDL) in Desktop Mobile iOS and Android usability improvements Customizable MicroStrategy Web start page…

Vortisieze Technology is looking for a server hardware specialist. This person should have some experience in one of the following areas of expertise: Server class hardware installation and configuration with rack servers comparable to Dell PowerEdge 2950 III servers Linux/CentOS 6.x Cloudera CDH 5+ VirtualBox or VMWare Data center management This person should have a desire to learn and be…

Vortisieze Technology, a Big Data Analytics company located in Northwest Arkansas, is looking for a Server HW specialist to oversee the design and spin-up of our servers for our Cloudera Hadoop cluster data center. If you would like to get your hands dirty learning the latest technology in Big Data and have experience in any of the following then this is your chance! Cloudera or Hadoop variant…

Vortisieze Technology, a Big Data Analytics company located in Northwest Arkansas, is looking for a Server HW specialist to oversee the design and spin-up of our servers for our Cloudera Hadoop cluster data center. If you would like to get your hands dirty learning the latest technology in Big Data and have experience in any of the following then this is your chance! Cloudera or Hadoop variant…

Mobile Development vs MicroStrategy Mobile

I had a potential customer ask me yesterday if we could build mobile apps. Apparently they had just spent a lot of money on an app that would allow them to collect data in the field, but it did not integrate with any of their shipment data or POS sales data to complete the picture for their field personnel. This company also did not have the resources to build any kind of custom app from scratch…