Inside the Domosphere
From the domosapiens
Musings, insights and creative solutions from the team at Domo.
Tuesday
February 14, 2012
Shawn Dickerson
Director of Marketing
Your relationship with your data can be a lot like a love affair. At first there's so much excitement about the insights you might glean spending a lot of time together. Every table and chart feels exciting, and the future is filled with promise. But too often …
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Friday
February 10, 2012
Jeff Burtenshaw
VP Community Platform
With the recent SuperBowl weekend, I couldn't help but reflect on a lesson I learned playing football that parallels the message found in “The New School of Dashboards”, an executive brief from Domo. Joe Gibbs, NFL hall of fame football coach and only coach to win three Superbowls with three different starting quarterbacks, is credited with …
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Thursday
February 2, 2012
Shawn Dickerson
Director of Marketing
Getting their arms around software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions once again ranks as a top-three priority for CIOs, according to Gartner's most recent CIO survey. Some are even suggesting 2012 will be a year of "explosive" growth for …
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Tuesday
January 31, 2012
Thamina Christensen
Marketing Project Manager
Before working at Domo, I taught middle and high school. When I first started teaching, I was hounded with advice. “It’s okay to use worksheets.” “Don’t feel bad about assigning the chapter and questions.” “Feel free to copy exactly what I’m doing.” Though these suggestions were appreciated and sounded like an easy way to teach, I realized …
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Wednesday
January 25, 2012
Shawn Dickerson
Director of Marketing
I loved this recent post on The Data Doghouse, which underscores why "spreadsheets from hell" are still the most pervasive BI tool for business users. Last year's TDWI study on Visual Reporting agrees. That survey found that nearly two-thirds of BI users are …
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Wednesday
January 18, 2012
Dan Roden
Senior Consultant, Strategic Accounts
I am sure you are thinking, "I get it. Moneyball. Stats. Business intelligence. We should all be looking for new ways to measure our business instead of the standard metrics we have always used." Right? Certainly a good discussion to be sure, but that is not where I want to go with this …
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Thursday
January 5, 2012
Shawn Dickerson
Director of Marketing
There's a storm comin'. Well, figuratively anyway. Out here in Utah, it's been dry as a bone. We even had to cancel our family's annual holiday break sledding trip (in related news, my back is doing great) …
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Thursday
December 8, 2011
Shawn Dickerson
Director of Marketing
Ok. You already know that mobility is kind of a big deal in business intelligence. A recent survey from TechTarget shows that while only 9% of companies currently have a mobile BI solution, that number is projected to grow to 48% in the next year …
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Tuesday
November 22, 2011
Julie Kehoe
VP of Communications
How do you make the enterprise more intelligent? That question was posed to Josh James, Domo founder and CEO, and Godfrey Sullivan, CEO of Splunk, at the Dow Jones VentureWire FASTech Conference in Redwood City, California …
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Wednesday
November 16, 2011
Chris Wintermeyer
Senior Director of Enterprise Solutions
As you may know from my previous blog post I've been on the hunt for a new vehicle. After driving several different models and comparing amenities and performance, I chose the vehicle that's right for me. Now, being in sales, comes the fun part for me …
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