Category: Data Analytics

Decoding the Data Lakehouse

Decoding the Data Lakehouse: The Blueprint for Smarter, Faster Decisions

September 10, 2025 | by David Kettinger

Think of a modern enterprise as a living organism. Its data is the stream of signals running through a complex digital nervous system, informing every action, reaction, and strategic move. But what happens when that nervous system is fractured? When signals from sales conflict with those from finance, and the operational core receives delayed or scrambled messages? The result is organizational paralysis—slow reflexes, poor coordination, and an inability to react intelligently to a rapidly changing environment. This systemic disconnect isn’t a failure of people but a challenge of evolution, born from a decades-long technological tug-of-war that pitted the highly reliable

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Enterprise BI Integration Strategy and Execution.

The Definitive Guide to Enterprise BI Integration: From Strategy to Execution

August 1, 2025 | by David Kettinger

Picture this: It’s Monday morning, and you’re walking into a critical board meeting armed with what you believe are your company’s most important performance metrics. Five minutes into your presentation, your CFO interrupts with a completely different set of numbers for the same KPIs. Your VP of Sales chimes in with yet another figure. Suddenly, instead of discussing strategy, you’re debating which system has the “real” data. This is the frustrating reality in most organizations. You’re not suffering from a lack of data; you’re suffering from a lack of enterprise BI integration. When business intelligence systems and the data that

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Maximize Efficiency with Supply and Demand Planning Analytics for JD Edwards

Maximize Efficiency with Supply and Demand Planning Analytics for JD Edwards

June 19, 2024 | by David Kettinger

Today, according to Allied Market Research on Supply Chain Management, only 6% of companies claim to have full visibility into their supply chain. Furthermore, their 2023 report claims that organizations can double profits by reducing supply chain costs. This indicates that most companies can stand to make a lot more money if they are able to increase transparency through better access to supply chain information and more efficient processes. At QuickLaunch Analytics, we’ve been helping manufacturing companies that run JD Edwards gain visibility into their supply chain processes since 2002 with our QuickLaunch for JDE solution. The latest QuickLaunch product

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Power BI Updates for Enterprise Analytics: Q2 2023 – Part 1

June 29, 2023 | by David Kettinger

As we move towards the holiday season, let’s review what the Power BI team has been up to over the summer and early fall of 2023.

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Power BI Updates for QuickLaunch Customers: Q3 2021

November 18, 2021 | by David Kettinger

As we move towards the holiday season, let’s review what the Power BI team has been up to over the summer and early fall of 2021.

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Time to Pull the Plug?

When to Pull the Plug on an Analytics Solution

February 2, 2021 | by Ben Harrison

Deciding to pull the plug on an Analytics Solution can be a difficult decision that many companies unduly postpone.

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First Quantum Uses Advanced Analytics to Predict COVID-19-Related Supply Shocks

September 9, 2020 | by QuickLaunch Analytics

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM) is a global copper company that operates long life mines in several countries and employs approximately 20,000 people world-wide. First Quantum has an effective 90% ownership of Cobre Panama.

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