Resources

Featured Resources

Resource Kforce Customer Story
CUSTOMER STORY

BUILDING USER CONFIDENCE WHILE REDUCING CLOUD COMPUTING COSTS

Kforce migrated from costly, legacy ETL processes to a modern approach that has widespread positive impacts on the business.

Resource Power BI Video Series
VIDEO SERIES

MINI-EPISODES TO HELP POWER BI USERS GO FROM KNOW TO PRO

Starts with the basics of what you need to know about PBI Desktop, an overview, and importing some data within the Power Query Editor.

Resource Ideal Agent Customer Story
CUSTOMER STORY

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND AI IMPLEMENTATION

Ideal Agent is partnering with SME to scale the business, reduce overhead expenses and improve customer experience.

Resource Modernize your Data Warehouse eBook
EBOOK

MODERN CLOUD DATA WAREHOUSES TO THE RESCUE

Big data is becoming more diverse, distributed, and dynamic. This strains your data warehouse and existing BI processes.

Case Studies & Customer Stories

Resource Data Delivery Customer Story
CUSTOMER STORY

A PLATFORM DESIGNED FOR CONTINUOUS DATA DELIVERY

Case study on data integration, automation, and governance for a customer-facing challenges around data collection.

Resource Public Sector Case Study
CASE STUDY

DATA BLENDING AND DISPARATE SOURCE INTEGRATION

Case study on ingesting multiple data sets to see the whole story in your data and building dynamic presentations around the insights.

Resource Fraud Analysis Customer Story
CUSTOMER STORY

DATA ENGINEERING FOR FRAUD ANALYSIS

Case study on utilizing Azure Data Factory and Snowflake to improve time to insight for potential fraud.

Resource Inventory Analytics Case Study
CASE STUDY

DATA-FIRST APPROACH TO INVENTORY ANALYTICS

An inventory system can provide unparalleled insights into customer behavior, product performance, and channel performance.

Resource Ideal Agent Customer Story
CUSTOMER STORY

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND AI IMPLEMENTATION

Ideal Agent is partnering with SME to scale the business, reduce overhead expenses and improve customer experience.

Resource Call Center Analytics Case Study
CASE STUDY

CALL CENTER METRICS AND DASHBOARDS

Producing actionable results by identifying performance trends, reason for service tickets, and trends in call volume.

Resource Kforce Customer Story
CUSTOMER STORY

BUILDING USER CONFIDENCE WHILE REDUCING CLOUD COMPUTING COSTS

Kforce migrated from costly, legacy ETL processes to a modern approach that has widespread positive impacts on the business.

Resource Financial Reporting Case Study
CUSTOMER STORY

ACCELERATING FINANCIAL REPORTING

Transforming raw financial data to insights for Port Tampa Bay by pulling in raw data from Great Plains and iSeaports.

eBooks & Analyst Reports

Resource Modernize your Data Warehouse eBook
EBOOK

MODERN CLOUD DATA WAREHOUSES TO THE RESCUE

Big data is becoming more diverse, distributed, and dynamic. This strains your data warehouse and existing BI processes.

Resource Cloud Data Warehouse Report
REPORT

CHECKLIST REPORT, CLOUD DATA WAREHOUSING

If you’re overwhelmed trying to find a solution for cloud data warehousing, take a look at this TDWI checklist report.

Resource Why BI Projects Fail eBook
EBOOK

TOP 6 REASONS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FAILS

Business Intelligence projects can begin with a simple goal, but can easily go astray, and often results in money wasted.

Resource Data Architecture Report
REPORT

SIMPLIFY DATA ARCHITECTURE FOR FASTER INSIGHTS

Maintaining separate systems makes it difficult to be agile and responsive in today’s fast-moving markets.

Resource BI & Data Trends
EBOOK

TOP 10 BI & DATA TRENDS TO EXPECT IN 2022

Including collaboration mining, dashboard evolution, data lineage, & application automation for triggering action.

Webinars & Videos

Resource Power BI Video Series
VIDEO SERIES

MINI-EPISODES TO HELP POWER BI USERS GO FROM KNOW TO PRO

Starts with the basics of what you need to know about PBI Desktop, an overview, and importing some data within the Power Query Editor.

Resource Data Literacy Webinar
WEBINAR

DATA LITERACY AND DEMOCRATIZING DATA FOR ALL

Understand the main characteristics of a data literate culture and the practical next steps for a data literacy program.

Resource Fraud Analysis Webinar
WEBINAR

DATA ENGINEERING FOR FRAUD ANALYSIS

Case study on utilizing Azure Data Factory and Snowflake to improve time to insight for potential fraud.

Resource Data Warehousing Video Series
VIDEO SERIES

DATA WAREHOUSES, DATA LAKES, AND DATA LAKEHOUSES

Similarities, differences, and what each of these terms mean for the future of Business Intelligence (BI).

Resource Dashboards 2.0 Webinar
WEBINAR

THE FOUNDATION FOR EXECUTIVE DASHBOARDING 2.0

As flexible as you want, responds instantly to new questions, and a mobile version that isn't just a scaled version of the desktop.

Resource Qlik AI Video Series
VIDEO SERIES

ACTIVE INTELLIGENCE VIDEO PLAYLIST

Interviews, how to's, and use case examples featuring Qlik. We also cover value added extensions like Vizlib and PlatformManager.

Resource ThoughtSpot Search Analytics Video Series
VIDEO SERIES

SEARCH AND AI-DRIVEN ANALYTICS VIDEO PLAYLIST

Check out our 2 Minute Drill videos and webinars on ThoughtSpot for insightful use cases and valuable information.

White Papers

Resource Tech Stacks White Paper
WHITE PAPER

DATA LAKEHOUSE, WAREHOUSE, & AZURE ARCHITECTURES

BI projects often focus on the Visualization/Reporting aspects but place less emphasis on the layers that power this.

Resource Cloud Computing White Paper
WHITE PAPER

CRASH COURSE ON CLOUD COMPUTING

We get it, moving to cloud computing can be scary. But, can you confidently say that you understand cloud computing?

Resource BI Roadmap White Paper
WHITE PAPER

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ROADMAP BUILT FOR SUCCESS

Insights into the components of a successful BI Implementation and how to avoid common pitfalls.

Resource Cloud Strategy White Paper
WHITE PAPER

7 EXPERT TIPS FOR SELECTING THE RIGHT STRATEGY AND TOOLS

Making the move to the cloud as part of your overall strategy can help manage costs and increase agility.

News & Announcements

Resource H20.AI Partner Announcement
PRESS RELEASE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

SME and H20.ai announce new strategic partnership. SME will leverage the power of the H2O.ai platform to maximize data science efforts at companies looking to innovate with artificial intelligence.

Resource Data for Good Announcement
ANNOUNCEMENT

WHERE NUMBERS AND STATISTICS ARE CHANGING LIVES!

In today's digital era, data fuels innovation and drives social change. It not only helps us understand and predict trends but provides us improve the quality of life with informed decisions.

Resource Inspired Giving Announcement
ANNOUNCEMENT

INSPIRED CORPORATE GIVING WITH THE SME FOUNDATION

Each team member at SME was encouraged to select a nonprofit to share with the team including their personal connection and the mission. $500 was then gifted to each of those organizations.

Resource Microsoft Power BI Partner Announcement
PRESS RELEASE

GOLD DATA ANALYTICS AND POWER BI PARTNER

As a certified Microsoft Gold Partner, specializing in Data Analytics, and a Power BI Partner we help businesses of all sizes and across various industries enable digitization, innovation, and efficiency. 

Industry Specific Resources

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WHITE PAPER

TOP 7 ANALYTIC USE CASES IN HEALTHCARE

How organizations are driving transformation through accurate, granular, and contextual data analytics.

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CASE STUDY

REDUCING HOSPITAL READMISSIONS, A CASE FOR INTEGRATED ANALYTICS

Healthcare organization utilizes BI to minimize readmission occurrences to drive lower costs and higher patient satisfaction.

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CASE STUDY

DATA LINEAGE IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY

Having every employee understand the data – not just the IT or data science departments- is a critical step to faster decision making.

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WHITE PAPER

SYSTEM-WIDE VIEW OF UTILITY OPERATIONS

Our resources have "on the ground playing field" perspective as well as "sky-box" perspective.

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CASE STUDY

VENDOR MANAGEMENT SOLUTION AND PORTAL

In this case study, a portal solution for vendor management that increased efficiency by 40%.

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WHITE PAPER

DATA ENABLEMENT FOR POWER GENERATION

Helping power generation companies optimize energy production, reduce downtime, and increase efficiency.

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CUSTOMER STORY

TRANSFORMS DATA MANAGEMENT & STORAGE WITH CLOUD SOLUTIONS

Improved data management and storage systems to streamline processes, reduce costs, and make data-driven decisions faster.

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WEBINAR

GETTING INSIGHTS AND DRIVING VALUE FOR UTILITIES

Watch how a utility uses ThoughtSpot to make it easy for anyone to get answers from their company data in seconds.