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One of the coolest (and most important) ways we use InsightSquared around the office may not be how you would expect. Every morning InsightSquared’s Systems Engineer Jack Alper walks past the buzzing sales team and turns on a television monitor that displays a continuous rotation of management’s favorite dashboards. Transparency is natural at a startup. …

Nothing sours a good Chobani and granola breakfast like reading an article titled “3 reasons to hate BI dashboards.” Ouch. Joe McKendrick at ZDNet was echoing the sentiments of Mark Smith, CEO & Chief Research Officer of Ventana Research, laid down in his perspective: “The Pathetic State of Dashboards.” Double ouch. We know both McKendrick …

Christmas 2011 came and went, and billions of dollars were spent to get friends and loved ones exactly what they wanted. Well, in theory. These days gift returns are so common that 37% of retailers have to ease up on their return policies to avoid the wrath of thousands of customers who want to exchange …