Do you need help getting your organization to stick to the facts? Is there lots of data in your organization but hesitation to share it? Be utilizing some Business Intelligence (BI) best practices these problems can be tackled. The power of BI is combining information from various data sources to... [More]

Last Monday Agora hosted a “booth” at the Toronto event for Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 Launch Event.  "Booth” is in quotes because this was not the typical trade-show kind of booth.  The event was set up as a celebration of software developers and all the wonderful things that t... [More]

Almost all companies have Microsoft SQL Server somewhere in their organization. It may have arrived there as part of a vendor application, Microsoft SharePoint deployment or custom web application. SQL Server does much more than just store data – at no additional cost! Other database tools often hav... [More]

Business Intelligence solutions can loosely be divided into two components: getting the data right (by cleaning it and storing in a Data Mart) and presenting the data to the user (through dashboards and reports). Preparing the data requires lots of time and effort and time to ensure the data is c... [More]