The days of data silos and exclusive data access are over. Data Scientists and business analysts are still an important component of the business and IT teams are still crucial to the success and stability of the organization BUT if you are thinking that these roles are still responsible for day-to-day analytics and delivering every bit of data analysis to the enterprise, your business strategy needs an upgrade!
If you are a business manager, senior executive, IT professional or analytical professional, you are probably well aware of the emergence of business intelligence solutions, BI tools and augmented analytics for business users. In all likelihood, you have been hearing about these trends in annual conference and industry journals. If your business has not yet adopted such an initiative, it is likely to do so within the next year. But it might surprise you to know that, world renowned technology research firm, Gartner, predicts that ‘By 2022, augmented analytics will be ubiquitous, but only 10% of users will use it to its full potential.’ Given the focus and effort invested in business intelligence and augmented analytics, this prediction is disappointing, but understandable.
Have you heard of Embedded BI? Do you know what it is? If not, your business is missing a lot. Embedded BI provides a lot of potential for your business to enable Citizen Data Scientist initiatives and data democratization, improve data literacy across the enterprise and make better business decisions.
Don’t underestimate your business users! They have market, domain and professional expertise that add value to the organization and, with the right BI tools and features, business users can gather, analyze and make decisions using data from all across the enterprise. You don’t have to leave the business intelligence and analytics efforts to IT or business analysts or data scientists.
The Smarten Partner is a healthcare service provider in the United States, providing a web-based, patient-centric, healthcare management solution and workflow solutions to assist hospitals and healthcare facilities, increase operational efficiency and reduce costs. One of the Partner Clients is a multispecialty physicians group offering medical management clinical research and other primary and urgent care services. This Client offers COVID-19 vaccination programs with services including COVID testing and vaccination management.
When you launch an analytics solution within your enterprise, you are probably concerned about getting your business users to adopt that solution. If you can’t engage the business user and achieve user adoption, your return on investment (ROI) will be poor! But, it is important to understand that the right augmented analytics solution can provide the structure and foundation for business users without requiring them to have a sophisticated knowledge of algorithms and analytical techniques.
