In October 2021, a 4-year-old girl went missing from a campground in Carnarvon, Australia. For 18 days, Western Australia Police interviewed witnesses, reviewed camera footage within many miles of the campsite, and assembled a significant amount of physical evidence through a massive public response, but couldn’t identify a suspect or locate the missing girl. It was quoted by Australian police as like looking for a needle in a haystack, with hopes of finding her alive slipping away.

In this post, we’ll discuss how easy it is to connect IBM Cognos Analytics with Esri ArcGIS, two powerful data analysis platforms that many organizations already use and benefit from, but haven’t been able to integrate.

Location, location, location. They say it’s the three most important aspects of real estate, but it applies to data analysis and business intelligence (BI) too.

While location isn’t the only factor in better understanding your business, it’s a key factor that’s often left out of traditional BI.