Speed up development with data visualisation design

Speed and quality are suffering We are in a new era where data is highly available. In addition, we have shiny new tools that help us make use of this data in ways we’ve never been able to before. Data scientists in tech firms and traditional businesses can quickly access, shape

My First SDK Experience

The other day, we were thinking back to our first custom SDK project. I thought it might be interesting to share how it started. And, as with many things it started with a client coming to us with a problem… The Problem: We have been engaged to develop a dashboard for a client.  One o

MicroStrategy World 2016 Brings Our Best GeoDash Offer – Ever!

Project X Ltd & Project X Labs Ltd Offering Our BEST Ever GeoDash Promotion at MicroStrategy World 2016 Show with the Release of GeoDash 3 & GeoDash 3M Make sure you come by the Project X Ltd exhibitor booth (#308) at MicroStrategy World 2016 taking place February 8-10 in Miam

Partner Sales Training At MicroStrategy HQ

Just before Halloween I had the opportunity to travel down to Tysons Corner, Virginia and attend the Partner Sales Academy at MicroStrategy headquarters. As a MicroStrategy Partner, we not only have the opportunity to promote and work with a best in class BI tool, we also get to parti

Big Data: The Next Big Thing

First a brief personal history of data warehousing time. In 1987, I started working with relational database systems when they were in their infancy.  We tried to build OLTP and OLAP systems on single relational databases, client server platforms.  It didn’t go so well.  By the

What is Big Data?

This is a question that comes up all the time. I was recently away at a conference where we discussed this topic in great detail for a couple of hours and at the end I think we had a view of the concept of big data, but no common definition. One of the funniest analogies of big data w

Finding the right BI and Analytics people

One of the interesting conversations we had at our recent client offsite, ConneXions, was about challenges and strategies for finding the right BI and Analytics staff.  Success, it would appear, takes strategic thinking, proactive behaviour, and creativity. The Talent Management Chall

iPad and iPhone Apps and Mobile BI

I have had the fortune of working recently on our Carbon Footprint Reporting application (on MicroStrategy and leverages GeoDash) and converting it to a MicroStrategy iPad and iPhone application. Project X Ltd has been expirementing previously with design and development, but often fo

Collaboration is More Than Just Talk

As most of you who follow our blog know, Project X's RapidBI Approach and Platform is linked and depends very much on Agile Development and Real Collaboration. The challenge with the word collaboration is that often it is just talk.  I have had the opportunity to work with s

A Business Intelligence Look at What Pharma is Doing with IT

 I wrote last week about business intelligence and it's application within the pharmaceutical vertical based on an article I'd read.  In my post I talked about …pharmaceutical companies to get value from all that data, there needs to be a robust b