Tag: Data Literacy

Augmented Analytics and ETL Tools for Business Users!

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July 20, 2020

How Can Business Users Prepare Data and Perform Analytics?

Can Business Users Really Figure Out Data Prep and Analytics?

It is a great idea to get your business users involved in analytics and to encourage and build data literacy in your enterprise but one of the things that often stops an organization from implementing self-serve analytics is the need to gather and prepare the data for analytics. How can IT or data scientist staff turn over day-to-day analytics when data is spread across the enterprise and it is so difficult to integrate that data and prepare the data for analytics?

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Let’s Talk About Citizen Data Scientists!

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July 15, 2020

My Friend is Wrong! Citizen Data Scientists ARE Important!

Do You Want To Understand and Enable Citizen Data Scientists? You SHOULD!

I had a conversation with a dear friend the other day and one of the things we discussed was the ubiquitous mention of Citizen Data Scientists in technology and industry publications and conferences. My friend (who shall remain nameless), insisted that this was just another passing fancy and that Citizen Data Scientists were not really all that important in building the enterprise of the future.

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Get Answers to Your Questions About Digital Transformation!

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June 24, 2020

Digital Transformation Does Not Have To Be A Mystery!

Do You Have Questions About Digital Transformation? We Have Answers!

If you’ve heard the Digital Transformation buzz, you probably have a lot of questions. Let’s dive into some of those questions and see if we can clear up the confusion!

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Modern BI & Mobile BI for Business Users!

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June 22, 2020

Modern BI and Data Literacy Go Hand in Hand!

Mobile BI and Personalized Dashboards: Important Components of Modern BI!

If your team is using business intelligence (and it should be), you may be working with a more restrictive business solution that is not designed for a business user. If that is the case, you are missing an opportunity to cascade analytics throughout the organization and to optimize your resources and improve productivity. Self-Serve Business Intelligence solutions are designed with guidance and recommendations to guide a business user with average skills through the process of preparing and analyzing data and to encourage collaboration and data sharing across the enterprise.

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Research Studies Reveal Shortcomings in Many Data Literacy Projects: Don’t Let This Happen to You!

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June 11, 2020

Research Studies Reveal Shortcomings in Many Data Literacy Projects: Don’t Let This Happen to You!

Data Literacy is a hot topic in business today.

As businesses struggle to remain competitive and to do more with less, every enterprise is looking for a way to optimize resources, and to get the most out of every team member. To do that, the business management team must leverage the knowledge and skills of each team member as those skills relate to their role and their responsibilities. Businesses must use team member knowledge gleaned from experience and education and merge that knowledge with data and analytics to make context-based, data-driven decisions.

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Understanding Digital Transformation: What it Is and What it is Not

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June 4, 2020

Digital Transformation occurs when an organization successfully exploits digital technologies, its processes, its core capabilities and its enterprise culture to create a rich digital business model that will advance the interests and success of the business. To plan and execute a Digital Transformation initiative, a business must understand what Dx is and what it is not and it must use that knowledge to build a comprehensive view of the organization, its current and desired culture and technology environment and its team strengths and weaknesses and customer needs.

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Understanding the Benefits of Digital Transformation!

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May 15, 2020

What is Digital Transformation and Why Should I Care?

Embrace Digital Transformation and Build a New Vision of Your Business!

What is Digital Transformation and why should you care about it? Let’s keep it simple. Digital Transformation involves the use of new, ever-changing digital technology in an environment designed to encourage problem solving and collaboration. Digital Transformation assumes that a business organization truly values data-driven decisions and wishes to improve its team member value and productivity by increasing their data literacy and comfort level with using data to make decisions.
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Citizen Data Scientists Need Not Be Data Scientist!

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April 14, 2020

Citizen Data Scientists Need Not Be Data Scientist

Support Your Citizen Data Scientists with Augmented Analytics!

If your business wants to take on a Citizen Data Scientist initiative, it must enable its culture to support augmented analytics within the enterprise at every skill level and provide support to transform business users into the Citizen Data Scientist role. Citizen Data Scientists will incorporate the use of augmented analytics and enjoy the features of an augmented analytics solution that will support users of every skill level with auto-suggestions and guidance to help them choose visualization techniques and appropriate analytical techniques and algorithms to complete their analysis, share information with other users and make fact-based decisions.

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Forget Complex ETL Skills. Self-Serve Data Prep is Here!

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April 10, 2020

Can Self-Serve Data Preparation Really Produce Results?

What is Self-Service Data Preparation & Can it Provide Actual Business Results? 

Let’s cut to the chase! Results are everything and when you think of a task like preparing data for analytics, that task does not seem to have a direct connection to results. Or does it? Renowned technology research and analysis organization, Gartner, predicts that data and analytics organizations that provide agile, curated internal and external datasets for a range of content authors will realize twice the business benefits as those that do not.

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Self-Serve Data Preparation Your Team Will Love!

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March 11, 2020

Get Self-Serve Data Prep AND Data Security!

Self-Serve Data Prep Balances Data Agility with Data Governance!

If your business understands the value of self-serve data preparation and augmented analytics, but your IT team or senior management is concerned about data governance and data security, you need not worry. You can use self-serve data prep tools and self-serve data ETL for data extraction, transformation and loading and still ensure appropriate data governance.

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