Musings, insights and creative solutions from the team at Domo.
I love autumn. One of the best things about this time year is going to an apple orchard and picking out blue ribbon apples to go along with home-made donuts. It’s time to savor the fruit of summer’s hard work. For those of us in business, maybe the best way to say it is that …
The Domo marketing team had the opportunity last Wednesday to attend the Salt Lake City Search Engine Marketers (SLCSEM) event. This event was huge, with presenter Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOmoz.org, drawing the crowds. Rand presented about irrational biases in marketing (specifically in search engine optimization) that keep companies from gathering a lot of potential …
As head of client services, I get to partner with our customers who are trying to solve real problems with Domo. A lot of their action is driven by end-user observations: our reporting is too difficult to use, too non-existent, too slow, too limited, too ugly and so on. But we also work with quite …
I’ve never been a fan of buzzwords or language that isn’t clear, intuitive or easily understood. It seems like every industry has its own vocabulary. Fine for the insiders, but it’s limiting when trying to communicate with a broader group. Business intelligence is no different. As BI starts to spill out of the realm of …
I’ve had a boatload of conversations with customers and prospects about their needs for a business intelligence solution. While every company’s needs are unique, there’s a common theme in each conversation …
One of my biggest frustrations as CEO of a public company — and one of the principle reasons I started Domo — was how hard it was (ok, impossible) to get all the data I needed when I needed it. In fact …
The Garnter Business Intelligence Summit is just starting and the anticipation is growing on Twitter, blogs, and other social media sites. Though big data is the main buzz, three other BI pain points stand out as hot topics: cloud, mobile, and the user experience. According to Gartner, the reign of the personal computer is coming …
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 …
In a recent HBR article, Eric Hellweg talks about the secrets to Pixar’s success. During the dominant Disney animated movie era—remember Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast—Pixar decided to do things differently. They took the opportunity to cast aside what had been done for what could be done. What were these secret guidelines? No songs …
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 …
