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Toucan specialists and analytics experts offer the best advice, research, how-tos, and insights - all in the name of making data analytics accessible to anyone.

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    5 Best Alternatives to BIME [2023]

    BIME analytics has officially gone away in the summer of 2021. Though we are saddened to see a great...

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    5 Best Alternatives to Tableau [2023]

    Tableau is a robust analytics tool that is pretty well known in the analytics market. Though marketed as...

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    5 Best Alternatives to Looker [2023]

    Looker is a well know technical analytics solution that was acquired by Google in early 2020. For...

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    Top 5 Alternatives to Power BI [2025]

    PowerBI is a powerful analytics tool from Microsoft aimed at large enterprises. Being a great authoring...

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    5 Best Alternatives to Klipfolio [2023]

    Klipfolio is marketed as a modern, lightweight BI solution that allows users to make better and...

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    5 Best Alternatives to Board [2023]

    Board categorizes itself as a decision-making platform instead of an analytics or insights solution....

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    Is Cloud Business Intelligence right for you?

    Where do you stand with Business Intelligence? If you’re like most companies, BI has been a priority of...

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    Business Intelligence Reporting: are you doing it right?

    If you’ve set out to develop and implement a business intelligence strategy for your company, then...

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    Best Alternatives to Exago & Why You Should Consider Migrating

    Exago has become the latest company to join the umbrella of Insight Software, where they will be...

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    4 Real World Case Studies on How BI Keeps Companies Competitive

    Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analyzing data. It is used to measure...

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    5 challenges of a sales director + how analytics can help

    As a sales person, you’ve got a knack for negotiating, building strong relationships with leads, and...

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    9 Best Practices to Create Insightful BI Dashboards

    Business intelligence dashboards display KPIs and other data for both technical and non-technical staff...

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    Business Intelligence vs Business Analytics: How Are They Different?

    Data is in abundance. Businesses create tons of data from multiple sources every single day. To use this...

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    Mobile Business Intelligence: The answer to widespread adoption

    The pace of business has changed. Decisions have to be made faster and more accurately. The only devices...

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    A Day in a Friction-Free Life — The CEO

    Data friction has become an integral part of the analytics industry.

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    Destroying Data Complexities: Toucan vs Other Analytics Solutions

    It is a known fact that data complexities is killing your business by making decisions slower and less...

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    Dangers of Treating Embedded Analytics like Enterprise Analytics

    Building a data product can be great for your business. It comes with many added benefits such as...

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    How to Pick Personas to Build Great Data Products

    Building a great data product starts with your users. But not all users are created equal. Your users...

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    When to use a Data Storytelling tool: Use case

    Data Storytelling is a smart and efficient tool for communicating information. To understand when to use...

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    The Hidden Costs of Data Friction

    Data friction is increasing the cost of your analytics and the analytics industry is profiting from it....

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    10 Ways Toucan Destroys Data Friction

    Data friction is killing business.

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    A Day in a Friction Free Life - Business Analyst

    Data friction has become a part of any business analyst's life.

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    Can cloud analytics help you better serve your customers?

    Every business uses analytics to make decisions, but for too long that process has been subject to...

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    What are data warehouses and why do they matter?

    By the end of 2021, more than half of all enterprise data will be hosted on the cloud. For SMBs, more...

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    3 reasons why data analytics are increasingly hosted on the cloud

    By the end of 2022, more than half of all enterprise data will be hosted on the cloud. With more data...

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    Are You Suffering From Data Complexities?

    The International Health Agency has reported that "Data Complexities" is the #1 leading cause of...

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    Top 10 Data Visualization Tools to Consider in 2023

    Data visualization tools are part of an industry worth over $8 billion and it is growing.

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    The 5 Keys to Picking the Absolute Best BI for Your Snowflake Data

    If you've recently moved your data to the cloud, then you might've picked Snowflake. This cloud-based...

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    Snowflake + Dataviz: Supercharging Your Investment

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    Live Data from Snowflake: 5 Reasons it’s a “must” for your analytics

    The age of slow data has come to an end. Business users are no longer willing to wait days or weeks for...

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