Many businesses find it challenging to deliver Enterprise Software Services, software product or application development projects on time. They struggle to deliver high quality products and services to the market, partners and customers and usually exceed project timelines and budgets.
What Are Citizen Data Scientists?
Citizen Data Scientists represent a new breed of business analysts – a group of individuals with diverse business responsibilities and training, who wield sophisticated analytical tools, and employ complex methods of analysis to improve business results – all without the training or assistance of data scientists or IT team members. Citizen Data Scientists are business users who leverage the knowledge and skill they have developed through professional training and business roles to navigate business intelligence and advanced analytical tools to answer business questions, identify trends and patterns and develop new competitive strategies to support business decisions.
The Client is one of several smart cities identified within the urban municipalities in India. Smart Cities focus on prioritizing pressing needs and identify the greatest opportunities to improve living conditions. As a smart city, the Client organization uses a range of approaches to achieve its goals including digital and information technologies, urban planning best practices, public-private partnerships, and policy changes.
The Elegant MicroWeb team collaborated with the Client team to develop a comprehensive understanding of requirements, workflow and processes and to define a database design and architecture to meet these requirements. Using the Agile Development Methodology, the Elegant MicroWeb team developed modules as part of an ERP system and implemented these modules, working with users to deploy, train and support in a way that was most meaningful to the user base in a particular role or location. The resulting application provides a centralized view of all core activities and processes and allows for advanced reporting for units and teams, optimizing resources and ensuring productivity while alleviating the manual management and reporting processes previously in place.
If you are an average business professional, your eyes probably roll back in your head when you hear terms like data preparation, data extraction, transformation and loading, otherwise known as ETL, or any other term that makes you think of a pile of rubble you have to sift through to find what you need. How and why would you ever want to dive into that pile?
Want to Improve Data Literacy and Data Democratization? Use the Right BI Tools!
When you want to democratize data and help your business users function at a higher level; when you want to improve the quality of decisions; when you want to optimize the analytical and data scientist resources you have and make them more productive, you have to look at the business intelligence solutions that are designed to support every team member. Most of your team members are professionals with specific knowledge and that knowledge should be giving you a market advantage and should be dedicated to doing the job and filling the role you need the team member to fill.
If you have a great idea for a software product and you want to take that idea to market to generate revenue and increase your business visibility, the first thing you need to understand is this: Software Product Development is not the same as software or application development. Oh, sure, there are many of the same steps involved, but there are many differences as well.
If you follow technology publications and predictions, you know that Citizen Data Scientists are the big news for business. By transforming business users into Citizen Data Scientists, the business can leverage the professional skills and knowledge of an individual team member and combine that knowledge with data analytics to get the best answers, forecast and predict, solve problems and identify business opportunities.
Don’t Give Up On Your Business Goals: Staff Augmentation Can Help
If you don’t have an IT team for your business, or if you have a team but they are always swamped, you are likely to be frustrated by the fact that you can’t plan any new projects, whether they are for infrastructure, software for business, support and maintenance, integration of software solutions, analytics initiatives or Software Product Development.
As business people, we are often presented with what might seem like a great opportunity. Maybe we have a chance to open another location, or to buy out a competitor or to add a product or service to our existing portfolio or to acquire more customers, resources, material or equipment.
SmartenApps eCommerce Analytics for Shopify provides complete insight into sales trends, KPIs and more with pre-built templates/reports. eCommerce analytics has never been easier. SmartenApps allow every business user to analyze business results, and the tools can be accessed with a simple install. Within minutes, with a single sign-on and registration, you will have access to pre-built templates and reports including: Sales Trends, Customer Lifetime Value, Customer Loyalty & Cohorts, Product Cross-sell Analysis and Business Intelligence Reports
