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Augmented Analytics Makes Advanced Analytics Simple!

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March 13, 2019

Data Preparation Tools and Advanced Analytics for All!

Augmented Analytics Tools and Data Prep Tools Make Life Easy for Business Users!

In today’s world, advanced analytics is for everyone. There is no reason to limit access to data preparation software or advanced predictive analytics to data scientists, analysts and IT staff. The evolution of augmented analytics and intelligence augmentation has created some impressive tools and solutions that allow business users with average skills to use self-serve data prep and complete data preparation using auto-recommendations and suggestions to work through the process easily and with no confusion.

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Citizen Data Scientists and Data Literacy!

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March 7, 2019

Data Literacy Improves Resource Optimization!

Encourage Data Literacy and Create Citizen Data Scientists!

Data literacy is a very popular idea these days. As business users adopt and embrace data and advanced analytics, features like predictive analytics for business users make it easier for a user with average skills to leverage data to make decisions and share information and, in so doing, to become more literate about data analytics.

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Is Advanced Analytics Right for Business Users?

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March 4, 2019

Can Business Users Easily Adopt a Data Discovery Solution?

Are Data Discovery Tools Suitable for Business User Skills?

If you want your business users to function and perform at their highest level and you want to optimize all resources, your data discovery solution must provide the guidance and ease-of-use that a business user requires to analyze and share data and make confident decisions that will improve the business bottom line.

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White Paper – Organizational Readiness Is Crucial to the Success of an Advanced Analytics Initiative

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February 21, 2019

White Paper - Organizational Readiness Is Crucial to the Success of an Advanced Analytics Initiative

There are many variables to the success of an advanced analytics solution but the primary pitfalls for this type of project can be traced back to poor planning. If the organization is not ready for self-serve advanced analytics, the initiative will fail. Organizational readiness is, in fact, one of the most overlooked issues in any type of software, system or technology introduction. If the enterprise wishes to succeed and achieve its goals for self-serve advanced analytics it must have a clear vision of what it wants to accomplish. It needs to have a comprehensive understanding of its requirements (technical, infrastructure, processes, tasks, locations, team members, etc.) The enterprise also needs to assess its need for external vs. internal assistance in implementation and training.

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Data Visualization Tools Make Sense of Confusing Data!

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February 19, 2019

Smart Data Visualization is Important to Advanced Analytics!

What is Smart Data Visualization?

Smart data visualization is a crucial part of advanced analytics. Smart visualization allows business users to view and analyze data to identify a problem, clarify a root cause, identify a business opportunity, and to make confident decisions. Business users can interact easily with visual analytics tools to build a view that will tell a compelling story using guided visualization tools so there is no need for assistance from data scientists or delay in finding, analyzing and understanding the data. Guided data visualization recommendations are provided to the user, based on the data type, volume, dimensions, patterns and nature of data.

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Advanced Analytics to Increase Productivity!

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February 14, 2019

Data Analytics That Will Improve Your Bottom Line!

Can Citizen Data Scientists Support Advanced Analytical Needs?

No business, large or small, has unlimited funds and resources. In a world where data analytics is more important than ever to the business bottom line and competitive position, the typical business cannot afford to hire dozens of data scientists but it absolutely must have access to detailed, clear data analysis that will drive the bottom line and ensure success.

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Are Analytics Translators & Citizen Data Scientists Critical?

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February 11, 2019

Succeed with Citizen Data Scientists & Analytics Translators!

Transform Your Culture with Analytics Translators and Citizen Data Scientists!

As business becomes more competitive, as markets get tighter, there is a need to leverage and optimize your resources to the greatest extent possible. Using the knowledge and skill of each individual on your team and allowing these skills to inform business decisions and business analysis is key. As businesses democratize data and look for ways to improve collaboration and ensure that information makes it to everyone who needs it, a new business role has emerged.

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Clickless Analytics: Search Analytics That is Easy and Fast!

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February 5, 2019

Advanced Analytics with Natural Language Processing (NLP)!

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Clickless Analytics: Advanced Analytics for All!

Natural Language Processing (NLP) takes the shackles off business users and provides advanced search analytics that is as easy as using a search engine. When advanced analytics incorporates natural language processing, business users can formulate questions and receive answers in a way that mirrors human language and writing. They do not need code or specific formats. They can just enter a question and receive an answer.

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What is Self-Service Data Preparation?

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February 4, 2019

Self-Serve Data Prep is Key to Data Democratization!

Data Literacy and Self-Serve Data Prep Encourage Citizen Data Scientists!

In years past, data preparation was the domain of IT professionals and data scientists. In order to prepare data for analysis, one had to find, gather, and prepare the data and that preparation included cleaning, combining, reduction and shaping of the data.

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Augmented Analytics Learning for All Users!

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January 30, 2019

Enable Learning for Citizen Data Scientists!

Can Augmented Analytics Tools Improve Business User Analytics Adoption?

When a business commits to data democratization and to improving data literacy, it must add advanced analytics tools that will support these initiatives. The education of business users is crucial if these projects are to be successful, but no business has the time or the money to schedule intensive training.

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