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Smarten Support Portal Updates – October – 2025!

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October 31, 2025

We invite you to explore our latest knowledgebase articles and to join the Smarten user community on Smarten Support Portal.

If you have not registered yet, Click Here to obtain your login credentials.

Knowledgebase Articles

  1. Crosstab : Spot the Gross Sales highlighters
  2. Data Sources : Improve data extraction performance from database data source
  3. Datasets & Cubes : Manage columns while creating dataset

Predictive Use cases

  1. Assisted predictive modelling : Classification : Customer Churn model using Smarten Assisted Predictive Modelling
  2. Assisted predictive modelling : Hypothesis : Independent Sample T-test Using Smarten Augmented Analytics

Forum Topics

  1. Embedded / API Integration : How to rebuild cubes/ datasets through API call ?
  2. Graphs : Global Variable : How can I plot the dynamic graph based on measure selected from the list of measures

Manuals and Technical Guides

  1. Smarten Concept Manual BI
  2. Smarten Concept Manual SmartenInsight
  3. Smarten Working with Multitenancy

If you don’t find what you need in the Support Portal, we hope you will contact us with your questions, comments or suggestions. We are here to help and to support your business goals and success!

URL: Smarten Customer and Partner Community
Email: support@Smarten.com

Original Post: Smarten Support Portal Updates – October – 2025!

What Are Citizen Data Scientists Doing Today?

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October 29, 2025

How Has the Citizen Data Scientist Role Evolved?

Ten years ago, the term ‘Citizen Data Scientist’ was coined by the world-renowned technology research firm, Gartner. The term refers to business team members whose expertise and role are not focused on analytics as a primary job function. Using self-serve analytics solutions, these team members can leverage analytics to create models, reports and analysis to collaborate, share and make decisions. Gartner predicted the emergence of this role within businesses as part of the growing importance of data analytics and data-driven decisions within the business environment.

A decade later, it is worth reviewing the status of this role in the business enterprise and within the average organization. Is the Citizen Data Scientist role a standard role within most businesses today? Does a Citizen Data Scientist replace or work independently from a Data Scientist or Business Analyst? Has the Gartner prediction come to fruition?

While there are no current statistics regarding the number of companies currently using a Citizen Data Scientist approach, the trend toward data-driven planning and forecasting is clear. As with many other business trends, the larger organizations usually take the lead. They have the budget and the depth of resources to plan for and deploy changes across the enterprise and to test theories and enforce cultural changes.

Here are some statistics that reflect the growth of the Citizen Data Scientist movement and the supporting technologies that engender this approach:

After Ten Years, Is the Promise of Citizen Data Scientists Fulfilled?
  • Studies reveal that the number of Citizen Data Scientists is growing five times faster than the number of Data Scientists.
  • Automation technologies support the growth of the Citizen Data Scientist approach with over 40% of data science tasks automated through augmented analytics and/or machine learning.
  • The Machine Learning (ML) market is growing at a compounded annual rate of more than 15%, reflecting the need for data analytics capabilities within self-serve solutions.
  • By some estimates, interest in the Citizen Data Scientist role has tripled in the past decade, as medium and small enterprises embrace new, intuitive, more affordable technologies to support the Citizen Data Scientist concept within their organization.

As this concept became mainstream, the industries saw a trend toward increasing data-driven insight while reducing dependence on Data Scientists.

While the Citizen Data Scientist role began as a basic initiative to gather data and create simple reports, today’s Citizen Data Scientists are now using business intelligence (BI) tools and augmented analytics with Natural Language Processing (NLP), machine learning, low-code and no-code platforms and other technologies to leverage limited technical skills and create sophisticated analytics with clear results. Reports, dashboards and data sharing allow team members to create and use data models and to increase data literacy and data democratization.

Team members can use smart data visualization and assisted predictive modeling to gain insight and solve day-to-day problems, advise management and collaborate with other team members to understand trends, patterns, challenges, and opportunities and leverage metrics to make fact-based decisions.

This evolution of the Citizen Data Scientist role within the organization can free Data Scientists to perform more strategic activities without the daily distraction of simple report requests. If and when a particular data model or analytical approach must be refined to be more strategic, the Citizen Data Scientist can work with the Data Scientist to achieve that goal.

Using this approach, the enterprise can empower team members with the tools to analyze data and to use their knowledge of the industry, market, customers and business environment to make decisions and improve results.

When we consider the last decade of Citizen Data Scientist evolution, we see that businesses across all industries are working toward a more data-driven approach to decision-making, and embracing data democracy as a means to improve productivity and the quality of decisions and to reduce re-work and missteps.

Contact Us to discuss your analytical needs and to find out more about Citizen Data Scientists, and the process of choosing the right Analytics Solution for your business. Explore our free White Papers: ‘The Potential Of The Citizen Data Scientist Approach And Augmented Analytics,’ ‘Enabling Business Optimization And Expense Reduction Through The Use Of Augmented Analytics,’ and ‘A Roadmap To ROI And User Adoption Of Augmented Analytics And BI Tools.’

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Mobile BI Supports User Access and Adoption and Improves Results

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October 15, 2025

Why Adopt Mobile BI? Data Access and Data Democratization

The global business environment has changed dramatically. With employees working remotely, and even in other countries, it is mandatory to provide technology and tools your team can use to complete tasks and, hopefully, to add value to the organization on a daily basis.

If you have not yet adopted a business intelligence or augmented analytics solution, it is wise to consider one now. Your competitors are already implementing these solutions! If you HAVE adopted a BI tool or self-serve analytics solution, but you have yet to provide your team with mobile business intelligence, it is past time to consider this addition because your competitors area already implementing THESE solutions as well!

‘Out-of-the-Box Mobile BI can provide natural language search analytics, clickless analytics for quick, easy analysis, key performance indicators, dashboards and reports, dynamic charts and graphs, and intuitive visualizations, with self-serve features that are suitable for every user.’

According to Market Research Future studies, ‘The Business Intelligence market segmentation, based on Technology, includes Mobile BI, Cloud BI, and Social BI…’ This market is…’is expected to grow and expand during the projected timeframe as it will help businesses make data-driven decisions, boosting the overall market growth.’ This study estimates that the business intelligence market will grow from USD 33.12B in 2024 to USD 78.42B in 2032.

The reason for that growth is simple. Businesses, large and small, are discovering the value of fact-based decision-making, and the wise business owner, executive or manager understands that their competition is actively involved in improving productivity (to do more with less), in improving customer satisfaction (with targeted products and services), in decreasing re-work and increasing collaboration, and above all in increasing the data literacy of its team through data democratization, easy access to crucial data and improved user adoption of technology.

Access Data From Anywhere with Next Gen Mobile BI Tools for Business Users

But the old methods of BI tool installation can no longer support strategic goals. Your team may be spread across countries, regions or cities. They may work in the field. They may be meeting with a client or a supplier. Any or all of these scenarios require mobile tools that provide your team with the information they need to make the right decision, to review historical data or transactions and work with others to create a pricing strategy, check on stock, understand customer buying behavior etc.

If you truly wish to make your team more productive and effective, it is crucial to give them access to data and the information they need to do their job, no matter where they are working (in the office or remotely). Easy-to-use, self-service tools ensure user adoption and can move your team members toward a Citizen Data Scientist role, with advanced analytics that is intuitive, interactive and flexible.

Out-of-the-Box Mobile BI can provide natural language search analytics (NLP), clickless analytics for quick, easy analysis, key performance indicators (KPIs) for metrics and results, dashboards and reports, dynamic charts and graphs, and intuitive visualizations, all designed for ease-of-use with self-serve features that are suitable for every user.

With these tools, your users can easily find and analyze information, working from anywhere, at any time of the day. They will not have to guess at information, or carry copies of old reports that are no longer relevant.

‘If you have adopted a BI tool or self-serve analytics solution, but you have yet to provide your team with mobile business intelligence, it is past time to consider this addition because your competitors area already implementing these solutions.’

If you want to support your business user team and provide a foundation for BI tools that will better serve your team and your customers, explore Smarten Mobile BI benefits and features, with powerful functionality and access for your business users including out-of-the-box Mobile BI and advanced analytics for every team member. For more information on Mobile BI and Augmented Analytics, read our article, ‘Mobile BI Business Use Provides Real Advantages,’ and take a moment to watch and listen to this informative webinar, ‘Smarten Mobile BI.’

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Smarten Support Portal Updates – September – 2025!

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October 3, 2025

We invite you to explore our latest knowledgebase articles and to join the Smarten user community on Smarten Support Portal.

If you have not registered yet, Click Here to obtain your login credentials.

Knowledgebase Articles

  1. General : Global Variables : Making use of Global variables
  2. Crosstab : Summary on Crosstab with multiple Row and Column dimensions
  3. Access Rights, Roles and Permissions : AD Integration in Smarten
  4. Datasets & Cubes : Handling multiple JOINs through Step by Step Procedure to create a dataset

Predictive Use cases

  1. Assisted predictive modelling : Regression : Handling Outliers Using Smarten Assisted Predictive Modelling
  2. Assisted predictive modelling : Hypothesis : One-Way Anova test using Smarten Augmented Analytics

Business Use Cases

  1. Business Scenarios : Sales Analysis Report by YoY Performance with Flexible Date Selection
  2. Business Scenarios : Calculation of Working Days Excluding Plant-Specific Holidays and Sundays

Manuals and Technical Guides

  1. Smarten Concept Manual Smartenview
  2. Smarten Concept Manual SnapShot
  3. Smarten Integration With Your App

If you don’t find what you need in the Support Portal, we hope you will contact us with your questions, comments or suggestions. We are here to help and to support your business goals and success!

URL: Smarten Customer and Partner Community
Email: support@Smarten.com

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Case Study : Customer Churn Prediction for India-Based Pharmacy and Wellness Business

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September 25, 2025

The Client owns a leading specialty chain of pharmacy and wellness stores in Ahmedabad, India, providing pharmaceuticals, medications, and wellness products to the community and consumers. As a component of its business, it sponsors a popular customer loyalty program. The Smarten model demonstrated remarkable performance, achieving 98% accuracy in predicting customer churn on the testing dataset.

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Embedded BI Tools Ensure User Adoption and Great ROI

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August 20, 2025

Embedded BI is Key to Return on Investment (ROI)

Your business probably spent a lot of time developing a strategy for business intelligence and data democratization. That is time well spent! You want to roll out the solution with care and be sure that your team members, managers and IT staff are ready to use and support the software and to make the most of the investment.

If your business chose the right solution, you will have seamless integration of information from disparate data sources so your team will have the information they need to gather, analyze and present information for confident, swift decision-making and improved results.

‘With the right business intelligence software and embedded BI capabilities, your business can improve overall organizational value for BI tools, provide unique solutions and integration with analytics without significant investment, and improve user adoption and return on investment (ROI) for business intelligence technology.’

There are numerous factors that affect user adoption of business intelligence solutions but one of the primary considerations is ease of access and use. No matter your business industry or environment, there is no doubt that your team members have learned to use critical enterprise applications and perhaps even software and apps that are unique to their role or their division or department.

When a business introduces new software, most users are hesitant to embrace it – not necessarily because they are lazy or resistant, but because they are often overwhelmed with workload and perhaps because they perceive that the time spent to learn this new solution may not provide the value they need.

Of course, it is crucial to choose an easy-to-use, personalized BI tool, but it is equally important to choose a solution with embedded BI capability.

67% of companies say time spent in their applications increased after they embedded analytics.

Seamless integration of Augmented Analytics and Business Intelligence Objects with easy to use, scalable integration APIs ensures that your team has the power of integrated business intelligence when and where they need it, with simple, easy-to-use analytics integration within enterprise and business applications in a single sign-on environment.

Protect Your Business Intelligence Investment with Embedded BI

Business users can access augmented analytics and BI tools from within their enterprise applications or mobile apps. Engender business intelligence data democratization and alleviate user frustration with real business user solutions and deep dive capabilities. Provide user access within their favorite applications to improve user adoption of business intelligence tools, and engender collaboration, data sharing and fact-based decisions.

The team member can access analytics from within popular, familiar apps and software and use analytics in a single sign-on environment to gather and analyze data for presentation and sharing.

Users have access to embedded BI objects from within the selected application so they can view and use integrated dashboards, cross-tab analytics, key performance indicators (KPIs), graphs and reports.

‘There are numerous factors that affect user adoption of business intelligence solutions but one of the primary considerations is ease of access and use.’

With the right business intelligence software and embedded BI capabilities, your business can improve overall organizational value for BI tools, provide unique solutions and integration with analytics without significant investment, and improve user adoption and return on investment (ROI) for business intelligence technology.

You can find out more about the Smarten Embedded BI And Integration APIs solution and add powerful functionality and access to existing ERP, SCM, HRMS, CRM or any other products. Provide analytics capabilities within existing products without major Investment. Your business users and your customers will appreciate the ease-of-use and access and you will gain a competitive advantage. Read our White Paper: ‘Making The Case For Embedded BI And Analytics.’

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How Can Mobile Access Add Value to My Tally Solution?

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August 14, 2025

Choosing a Mobile Solution to Integrate with Tally

If your business is using Tally ERP or Tally Prime and you wish to increase employee productivity and provide seamless access to data within and outside the walls of the office, you can make the most of your resources and knowledge and integrate your Tally data within a mobile environment to enable user adoption and make it easier for your team to gather, clarify and understand data to make confident decisions.

Nearly 80% of IT executives said employees cannot do their jobs effectively without a mobile phone, and three-quarters said mobile devices are essential to workflow

‘If you wish to further enhance the use of Tally products within your business and provide the tools and information your team will need to support enterprise goals and objectives, to become more productive and to improve decision-making, you must focus on the capabilities, technology and vendor support of the prospective mobile solution to ensure that the product and services will fulfill your requirements and adequately serve your Tally solution users.’

Integrate Business Intelligence within your Tally solution and make the data within your Tally product(s) available to your team day or not, on the road or in the office, to improve productivity, ensure data-driven decisions and increase employee collaboration.

Support Your Small Business Tally Solution Users with Mobile Access and Data Insight

As you consider mobile access solutions and data access, review the prospective solutions for the following features and capabilities:

  • A native mobile application that communicates with a cloud server to fetch and display requirement data, graphs and reports
  • Security interactions and transactions
  • Clear visualization, dynamic charts and graphs
  • Modern business intelligence (BI) features
  • Seamless mobile access for users working outside the office and in remote locations
  • Near real-time access to recent transactions
  • Ability to deploy mobile app and tools without extensive training and expense
  • Dependable support
  • Ability to share reports via PDF and XLS download, and WhatsApp, email and other options
  • Rapid application loading
  • Single sign-on user access
  • Mitigate costs for customization and integration
  • Keep pace with Tally solution upgrades

In order to enable and encourage users and make your team more productive, the selected solution must be seamlessly integrated and allow users to easily access the familiar Tally solution and use the data contained therein to gather data and produce reports, share information with other users and make swift decisions.

‘Integrate Business Intelligence within your Tally solution and make the data within your Tally product(s) available to your team day or not, on the road or in the office, to improve productivity, ensure data-driven decisions and increase employee collaboration.’

Adding integrated mobile BI tools and mobile access to Tally modules and features does not have to be difficult. If you wish to further enhance the use of Tally products within your business and provide the tools and information your team will need to support enterprise goals and objectives, to become more productive and to improve decision-making, you must focus on the capabilities, technology and vendor support of the prospective mobile solution to ensure that the product and services will fulfill your requirements and adequately serve your Tally solution users.

Find out how mobile SmartenApps For Tally can support your small business team and extend access to your Tally ERP or Tally Prime solution with access and features that offer accounting, finance, sales, inventory, and purchasing professionals and team members the tools they need to improve performance.

Choosing a Mobile Solution to Integrate with Tally
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Case Study : Augmented Analytics for Leading Electric Scooter Manufacturer in India!

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August 12, 2025

The Client is a leading electric mobility company in India, specializing in high-performance electric two-wheel scooters engineered for sustainable urban transportation. With a robust presence across 200+ cities, the organization leverages lithium-based battery technology, and advanced electric powertrain systems that are tailored to accommodate Indian road conditions.

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Smarten Support Portal Updates – July – 2025!

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August 1, 2025

We invite you to explore our latest knowledgebase articles and to join the Smarten user community on Smarten Support Portal.

If you have not registered yet, Click Here to obtain your login credentials.

Knowledgebase Articles

  1. Data Sources : Adding a new JDBC/ODBC Database Driver/Connector to Smarten
  2. Visualizations : Making use of Case statements (IfCase, When-Then)
  3. Administrator : Enable Managed Memory In Objects

Predictive Use cases

  1. Assisted predictive modelling : Classification : Customer Churn model using Smarten Assisted Predictive Modelling
  2. Assisted predictive modelling : Regression : Sampling Data using Smarten Augmented Analytics

Business Use Cases

  1. Business Scenarios : Calculating Pending Completion Months for an Ongoing Project
  2. Business Scenarios : Derive monthly closing balance of various items from yearly opening balance and their monthly transactions data

Manuals and Technical Guides

  1. Smarten Concept Manual SmartenInsight
  2. Smarten SSDP Best Practices
  3. Smarten Working with Reports

If you don’t find what you need in the Support Portal, we hope you will contact us with your questions, comments or suggestions. We are here to help and to support your business goals and success!

URL: Smarten Customer and Partner Community
Email: support@Smarten.com

Original Post: Smarten Support Portal Updates – July – 2025!

Leverage Citizen Data Scientists for Business and Business Users

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July 23, 2025

Business and Team Member Benefits of Citizen Data Scientists!

When a business considers the prospect of implementing business intelligence and augmented analytics tools to align objectives and streamline processes and decision-making, the business management and executive team can often see the project as time-consuming and expensive.

In fact, most proposals that include process changes, training and new technology get stalled because:

a. change is hard

b. there is a tendency to say that everything is just fine the way it is

c. the management team believes that the expense is not equal to the value of the transition.

When it comes to BI tools and self-serve analytics, all of these claims can be disproven by results.

‘By providing business users with easy-to-use BI tools and augmented analytics features that produce results and allow them to make the most of their knowledge and time, the organization is more likely to retain its human resource assets and to identify and utilize its team member skills to achieve results, thereby creating a competitive advantage and a more agile, streamlined enterprise.’

In fact, Gartner has predicted that ‘Early adopters of augmented analytics have the potential to realize more strategic and differentiating business benefits from their analytics investments than those who wait until these technologies are widely adopted.’

Results and benefits are proven across the enterprise by businesses that have already adopted business intelligence and augmented analytics.

Minimum Viable Products (MVP) Produces Better Business Start-Up Results

For the organization, these benefits include:

  • Support for data-driven, fact-based decision making
  • Insight and perspective into history, results and trends and patterns for strategy and operational decisions
  • Encouraging collaboration among team members, IT, business analysts and data scientists
  • Business agility and efficiency
  • Leveraging human resource assets and improving productivity
  • Creating a competitive advantage with rapid decision-making and market response
  • Improving and optimizing financial investments, forecasts and predictions

For business users, transitioning to Citizen Data Scientists, the advantages include:

  • Combining professional and industry knowledge with data to achieve accurate results
  • Leveraging simple BI tools and self-serve analytics to receive recommendations and suggestions and make quick, clear decisions
  • Reducing the need for IT and data scientist assistance
  • Collaborating with other business users to create and share data, reports and information
  • Advancing career goals by learning and using tools that combine existing skills with new analytical capabilities
  • Improving data-driven decisions and reducing re-work

By providing business users with easy-to-use BI tools and augmented analytics features that produce results and allow them to make the most of their knowledge and time, the organization is more likely to retain its human resource assets and to identify and utilize its team member skills to achieve results, thereby creating a competitive advantage and a more agile, streamlined enterprise.

‘Gartner has predicted that ‘Early adopters of augmented analytics have the potential to realize more strategic and differentiating business benefits from their analytics investments than those who wait until these technologies are widely adopted.’

If your business wishes to capitalize on the potential of the Citizen Data Scientist approach, it important to work with an IT Partner who can help you define your requirements and strategize for optimal success, providing the augmented analytics tools and knowledge of the industry that is required to position you for success. Get started today with our self-paced FREE Online Citizen Data Scientist course.

Contact Us today to find out how our team can help you to improve business results and increase team collaboration, data literacy, productivity and competitive advantage.

Original Post : Leverage Citizen Data Scientists for Business and Business Users!