Not long ago, tech leaders were lying awake in the small hours of the night fretting about missing the big data revolution. CIOs and CTOs rushed to hire data scientists, build data lakes, buy new ...

Internal data is often the first place that companies look when they start to think about analytics and insights. But they shouldn’t overlook the wealth of value that can be gained from mining ...

Using the External Data Connection feature in Excel, you can acquire information from external sources, such as Access and SQL Server. The data remains stored at its original source, but the data ...

In the last couple of years, a lot of companies have started using BCS (Business Connectivity Services) to integrate data from external data sources into SharePoint. It was initially available with ...

Power Query in Excel is a powerful tool designed to streamline the process of importing, cleaning, and transforming external data. It enables you to prepare datasets for analysis efficiently, saving ...

Spreadsheets contain many tools for analyzing and manipulating data. The trouble is much of the data CPAs need to analyze resides in company databases or on the Internet. So, after finding the ...

If companies want to avoid flying blind, they have to master data analytics, and increasingly, this requires tapping into data from outside an organization’s four walls. Growing numbers of companies ...