eCommerce and online shopping businesses employ professionals in many roles including sales managers, marketing professionals, social media experts, product and service professionals and others. Together, every role in a business is designed to create a team that will ensure business success and, with eCommerce exploding, it is easy to think that the right people can get the job done.
This Client business is focused on protecting and sustaining the environment by converting animal by-products into a variety of edible products and other products to support ecological balance.
The Elegant MicroWeb team worked with this Australia-based Client team to successfully plan, design, develop and deploy solutions and achieve Client objectives. The solution is designed to effectively facilitate, streamline and manage the Client yearly conference, organize, monitor and manage routine conference-related activities, manage conference attendance, provide support for delegate and attendee communication and data sharing, as well as survey participation, conference and session registration and quick, seamless delegate and attendee access for information on workshops, sessions, sponsors, booth locations and more.
When a business has more IT projects and initiatives than it can handle, it will often look to hire more internal IT staff members. But hiring takes time, interviewing is imperfect and part time or full time employees require management, benefits and office space. While a business might need one-time project support, or ongoing support for development, maintenance and support, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to staffing. In addition to these issues, there is the very real issue of ongoing training and skills enhancement. That costs money and, when a team member is out for training, someone else must cover for that team member. So, what is a business to do?
Most business executives and managers have, by now, read the Gartner predictions wherein the average business user will be (or already has been) nominated to become a Citizen Data Scientist. Gartner defines a Citizen Data Scientist as “a person who creates or generates models that leverage Predictive or Prescriptive Analytics but whose primary job function is outside of the field of statistics and analytics.” It is true that a Citizen Data Scientist is NOT a Data Scientist, but some businesses incorrectly expect the same results and anticipate being able to reduce the need for business analysts or data scientists as these new roles are assumed.
If you want your business users to have access to analytics tools that are easy enough for the average user to understand, you will want to select augmented analytics that are easy to use with guidance and recommendations to help the user achieve the results they want AND help the user understand those results once they finish the analysis.
Software application development can be a frustrating undertaking. Your business may or may not have the internal IT skills and training to complete an app development project, they may or may not have to the time or the money to risk a lengthy project fraught with budget overruns and management oversight, but the fact is that your IT team is busy with day-to-day maintenance and support and with other projects like new hardware and network initiatives.
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If your enterprise is in Government or Public Sector, you know how tight budgets can be and how old technology can stymie your progress and your engagement with suppliers, partners, citizens, users and business team members. If your organization wants to engage software re-engineering services, custom software development, software product development services or any other services, you will want a Government And Public Service Technology Partner.
Many businesses struggle to translate ideas into a reality but none of these struggles is more profound than the software product vision. Often, the business abandons a great idea for a mobile application or a software product that has great potential to improve and increase business. Usually the reason for this includes the cost, the time and effort required and the absence of the skills and training to conceive, design, develop, implement and maintain a software product.
If you think Business Intelligence solutions are just for business analysts, data scientists or IT professionals, you are missing the real intent of business intelligence. Business Intelligence is, by its nature, supposed to inform the business and make it easier to make the right decisions and drive your business forward but if 90% of your users have no access to real, clear information, you are missing most of the advantages and tying up your team in red tape, delayed decisions and endless requests for information. You are shackling your analysts, data scientists and IT team by burying them under those requests for information and using precious time they might be spending on strategic and crucial initiatives.
