Quick Tips

Catch up with the AI Team’s most recent top projects, new software features we’re using, and advice to help avoid the same pitfalls we and your peers are hitting. Some tips come from our credit union partners and some tips are from our own work that we’d like to share. When new questions come in, or a particularly common project keeps coming up, you might just see some of the solutions posted here!

What data projects are you currently focused on and how can we help? The Asterisk Intelligence team specializes in data analytics and data warehousing for credit unions. Contact us at ai@cuanswers.com.


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May 5, 2020

Optics Data Zooms in on Member Engagement, Click-by-Click

Optics Data Zooms in on Member Engagement, Click-by-Click

With data collection for Online Banking Optics and Phone Optics, your credit union can have a more detailed analysis of your member base and the ways they are engaging with your organization.  Best of all, these data collection options are FREE to activate for Data Warehouse users! Online Banking Optics Data Collection With Online Banking… Read more »

May 23, 2022

Today’s Quick Tip for Managing Your Data Warehouse: Give Every Table a Description

Today’s Quick Tip for Managing Your Data Warehouse: Give Every Table a Description

We’ve collected questions that have come across the Asterisk Intelligence desk and have put together a series of tips for your organization to manage your Asterisk Intelligence Data Warehouse.  Ongoing attention to data quality and established procedures can help avoid a messy or frustrating database down the road. Today’s tip: give it a description!  Every… Read more »

May 23, 2022

Meet the Analyst: Deriving Data Insights to Help Your Business Strategy

Meet the Analyst: Deriving Data Insights to Help Your Business Strategy

In order to become a more data-driven organization, you need a person or a team that ensures quality information can be used in a meaningful way throughout your entire business.  Meet the Analyst is your human resource for managing a range of data-driven functions, including overseeing data management, creating data strategies and improving data quality…. Read more »

May 20, 2022

Analyze Courtesy Pay Fees and Make Informed Decisions for Your Organization

Analyze Courtesy Pay Fees and Make Informed Decisions for Your Organization

Courtesy Pay fee programs have been a topic of national attention in 2022, with several national banks deciding to adjust their fee schedules, prompting many more financial institutions to start scrutinizing their own practices. How many of your members are currently using these services?  What types of transactions are causing these fees?  What would happen… Read more »

May 17, 2022

Asterisk Intelligence facilitates ‘Management Dashboard’ training to credit union leadership teams

Asterisk Intelligence, the data analytics and data warehousing team at CU*Answers, recently announced the completion of their annual management dashboard training event offered to credit union leadership teams. “CU*BASE, our credit union core processing application, contains over 110 management dashboards,” said Thomas Hull, Business Intelligence Analyst with Asterisk Intelligence. “With each dashboard designed to provide […]

May 11, 2022

Take Advantage of Analytics Booth – 90 Days FREE for New Users!

Take Advantage of Analytics Booth – 90 Days FREE for New Users!

We’re excited to offer a 90-day FREE trial of Analytics Booth for new users! With Analytics Booth, your credit union’s vitals are at your fingertips – track hundreds of data points across Balance, Member and Transaction data categories!  Customize alerts to be notified of key metrics and glean data from our 12 available dashboards.  Free… Read more »

May 6, 2022

Optics Data Zooms in on Member Engagement, Click-by-Click

Optics Data Zooms in on Member Engagement, Click-by-Click

With data collection for Online Banking Optics and Phone Optics, your credit union can have a more detailed analysis of your member base and the ways they are engaging with your organization.  Best of all, these data collection options are FREE to activate for Data Warehouse users! Online Banking Optics Data Collection With Online Banking… Read more »

May 5, 2022

Meet the Analyst: Deriving Data Insights to Help Your Business Strategy

Meet the Analyst: Deriving Data Insights to Help Your Business Strategy

In order to become a more data-driven organization, you need a person or a team that ensures quality information can be used in a meaningful way throughout your entire business.  Meet the Analyst is your human resource for managing a range of data-driven functions, including overseeing data management, creating data strategies and improving data quality…. Read more »

May 4, 2022

Frankenmuth Credit Union gets started with a data warehouse

Asterisk Intelligence, the data analytics and data warehousing team at CU*Answers, recently announced that Frankenmuth Credit Union (Frankenmuth, MI) has partnered with the data analytics consultants to establish a data warehouse with CU*Answers. “Turning on another data warehouse solution is always exciting and it’s a privilege to be working with another credit union who is […]

May 2, 2022