Do self-serve BI tools support data governance, integral data security and organizational IT standards and policies? In some cases, the answer is ‘no’. But, that shouldn’t stop you from looking at self-serve BI tools. The question isn’t whether the integrity of data governance can be preserved when using self-serve BI tools. The question is really, ‘which vendor should I select in order to achieve true self-serve BI and data democracy without eroding data governance and security?’
An India-based Highway Toll Plaza Management Co. selected ElegantJ BI to help them create a central data warehouse system with validated, timely data from all toll plazas and provide uniform multidimensional BI information architecture. ElegantJ BI helped the organization consolidate data validate and improve data quality and design a central data warehouse to leverage dashboards, KPIs, analytical features and reporting functionality with ready-to-use toll plaza management templates that helped the client to implement the solution swiftly.
ElegantJ BI is proud to announce its participation in the world-renowned CeBIT conference in Bengaluru, India, October 29-31, 2015.
Elegant MicroWeb CEO, Kartik Patel says, “We look forward to greeting potential partners and customers at CeBIT, for the second year, and to sharing our vision of innovative Business Intelligence.”
ElegantJ BI brings a new perspective to BI tools, and predictive solutions, with a ‘Design Once, Use Anywhere’ UI engine, and Real Time and Cached Cube options to satisfy varied use cases.
Today’s business managers and owners are savvy enough to know that self-serve business intelligence is the way to go. Business users need data visualization, monitoring and analysis if they are going to help the organization to achieve the best results and compete in the market. You want to provide true data democracy in your organization and since most BI tools vendors are pitching the benefits of self-serve BI, one might assume that real self-serve BI tools are available from every vendor, but nothing could be further from the truth (so, buyer beware!)
When business intelligence vendors talk about democratizing data discovery, they can have very different interpretations about ‘democracy’. If a business intends to provide self-serve BI tools to its employees for daily use and data discovery, it must provide true data democratization. The business user cannot be limited to viewing static dashboards developed by dashboard developers with only the most basic drill down and filtering capabilities. Business users must be empowered by true data democratization and self-serve BI tools, which, in many cases, is the original intent of a BI solution implementation. Sadly, many businesses never achieve their original goals, but rather end up with ‘packaged dashboards’, because they are hamstrung by desktop-based data discovery BI tools that require design control and intervention by dashboard developers and limit business users to packaged views and tasks.
Small and medium sized organizations often give up on the idea of business intelligence and corporate performance management, because they believe that the BI tools and solutions are too expensive and complex to implement and that their organizational structure and processes is simple enough to manage without these types of tools.
