I vote for Data Democracy. Why? Because data belongs to everyone in your organization and if you can find a way to provide data democratization, and provide your business users with mobile BI tools, self-serve business intelligence, social BI tools and self-service data prep, your organization WILL reap the benefits.
The enterprise is a large manufacturer of CPVC pipes and fittings with factories located across India. The client serves millions of residents and contractors, providing quality plumbing products and services with production facilities across India, supplying plumbing systems, drainage systems, agricultural plumbing products and industrial and electrical conduit pipe products. The client needed an application to track security guards employed at various facilities, and to mitigate ongoing theft issues experienced at these facilities. Every security guard is assigned a specific route and route frequency to ensure that all key security points are covered during the shift.
Since it is the prerogative of a consultant to question and modify predominant jargon, I am hatting (yes, this too is an English word) …I am hatting myself in the hat of a consultant this morning, and I am questioning the application of the term “Business Intelligence.”
If your organization is implementing self-serve business intelligence, it is important to balance sophisticated tools with the skills of the average business user. While algorithms and advanced data analysis are a great benefit, if business users find these tools daunting, they won’t adopt them, and you won’t improve productivity, or timeliness or accuracy of decision-making.
Complex BI tools are not suitable for the self-serve environment. These tools are meant only for programmers and data scientists. To empower business users and allow them to achieve goals and contribute to the bottom line, you provide advanced analytics and smart data visualization tools in an easy-to-use environment that encourages user adoption and report and data sharing.
ElegantJ BI is pleased to be a Silver Sponsor at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, which will be held on June 6 and 7, 2017 in Mumbai, India. The theme of the conference is ‘Lead in the Age of Infinite Possibilities’.
The next technology move:
Smart Data Visualization, New intuitive graphical displays, Strength to handle Big Data at blazing speeds, Self-Serve Data Prep to merge and prepare your data in one solution. All this put together with Plug and Play predictive analytics to empower users and making use of analytics a sheer joy!
