• June 29, 2017   Plaster Group     0

by Colin Carson, Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant Abstract When a curated data set is needed for reporting, a common design ...

• December 12, 2016   Plaster Group     0

by Sal Faizi, Sr. Consultant Ambient computing is becoming increasingly important as it allows organizations to stay competitive in innovative ...

• September 29, 2016   Plaster Group     0

by Plaster Group’s Data & Analytics Team While discussing past engagements with one of my coworkers, Tableau came up. I ...

• May 25, 2016   Plaster Group     0

by Plaster Group’s Data & Analytics Team At some point, most organizations find themselves evaluating new tools to improve and ...

• March 30, 2016   Plaster Group     0

Challenge Our client – a specialty Seattle coffee retailer – disengaged with its distributor, and upon doing so lost visibility ...

• March 10, 2016   Plaster Group     0

by Plaster Group’s Data & Analytics Team Challenge Our client’s Business Intelligence solution lacked sufficient capabilities to determine optimal supply ...

• January 28, 2016   Plaster Group     0

The Challenge Our client’s Enterprise Data Warehouse department was tasked with providing their customers a centralized, intuitive, timely, and comprehensive ...

• January 14, 2016   Plaster Group     0

By Sal Faizi, Sr. Consultant In the digital age, data is gold and data security is the fortress to keep ...

• August 12, 2015   Plaster Group     0

Leveraging Appropriate Data Warehouse Architecture Ensures Better Support for Business Growth: Leadership at a local Seattle non-profit better understands the capabilities of their data warehouse platform and has the vision ...

• June 4, 2015   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group had a great time sponsoring and attending TDWI Northwest’s June 3rd event at REI: Location Intelligence in the ...

• March 11, 2015   Plaster Group     0

Challenge Our client – a specialty coffee retailer – disengaged with its distributor, and upon doing so lost visibility into ...

• February 11, 2015   Plaster Group     0

A solid Business Intelligence strategy now guides both tactical and strategic decision-making at this non-profit organization. Challenge Our client was ...

• January 22, 2015   Plaster Group     0

by Plaster Group’s Data & Analytics Team Meet Predictive Analytics “The Dow Jones Industrial Average will rise above 20,000 by ...

• October 1, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group is again looking forward to sponsoring our local Seattle chapter of the The Datawarehousing Institute this coming Tuesday, October ...

• September 10, 2014   Plaster Group     0

A cost-constrained startup quickly sees value from a new Business Intelligence platform implemented with low licensing costs. Challenge The existing Business Intelligence ...

• July 15, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Challenge Our client’s Business Intelligence solution lacked sufficient capabilities to determine optimal supply chain operations. Although data was available to ...

• June 3, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Microsoft released the latest version of SQL Server – SQL Server 2014 – to the world in April, 2014. As ...

• May 29, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Our Data & Analytics Director Wendy Parker is co-teaching a Data Mining course at the University of Washington. She recently invited Lucas ...

• May 15, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group is looking forward to sponsoring and attending  another TDWI Northwest event next week. The Database Warehousing Institute’s Seattle Chapter ...

• April 23, 2014   Plaster Group     0

You cannot open a business or IT trade magazine these days without seeing a major article about the impact of ...

• April 1, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Challenge Our  Seattle-based client began an initiative to improve data access, collaboration, and critical analysis, and to better harvest and ...

• March 25, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Challenge Our client – a major non-profit healthcare provider – lacked a central platform for the aggregation and analysis of ...

• March 13, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Our Data & Analytics Consultants made a couple predictions for 2014’s  Business Intelligence trends after looking at this year’s BI ...

• March 10, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Last month Microsoft released its newest Business Intelligence (BI) offering called Power BI. With this offering, Microsoft has made some ...

• March 4, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group is looking forward to sponsoring and attending  another TDWI Northwest event next week. The Database Warehousing Institute’s Seattle Chapter ...

• February 25, 2014   Plaster Group     0

A few days ago Gartner released its 2014 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms. This year Gartner revised the ...

• September 8, 2013   Plaster Group     0

Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing careers are hotter than ever! In the times when companies can’t hire skilled DW/BI candidates ...

• April 11, 2013   Plaster Group     0

When I started out in Data & Analytics, one of my first roles was as an analyst at Washington Mutual ...

• March 17, 2013   Plaster Group     0

After a successful implementation of a data warehouse, the obvious next step is to provide a reporting solution or a ...

• February 28, 2013   Plaster Group     0

The TDWI Northwest chapter is pleased to welcome Bill Inmon as their guest speaker on March 13 in Bellevue.  Bill ...

• January 25, 2013   Plaster Group     0

Do you use data to support your decisions? Most people use data to support even the simplest decisions on a ...

• January 15, 2013   Plaster Group     0

The TDWI Northwest chapter has announced its board members for 2013 and Plaster Group is pleased to be represented by ...