Tag: Data Preparation

Self-Serve Data Preparation Improves Results!

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April 7, 2022

Include Self-Serve Data Preparation in Your Augmented Analytics Solution!

Gartner predicted that ‘…data preparation will be utilized in more than 70% of new data integration projects for analytics and data science.’ If your business is not already including this approach in analytics and decision-making, it is missing a crucial link to success. Self-serve data preparation and augmented analytics solutions are now more popular than ever. By democratizing data and improving data literacy, the business can do more with less. But the sheer volume of data within an organization can be challenging.

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Employ BI Tools and Augmented Analytics for Business Users!

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September 13, 2021

Business Intelligence and Augmented Analytics Go Hand in Hand!

Business Intelligence is mandatory! Without intelligence you have no insight into your customer buying behavior, your competition or your organization. In order to achieve business intelligence in today’s environment, you need modern BI tools and augmented analytics that is suitable for your business users.

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Self-Serve Data Prep Tools Can Optimize SME Business Budgets and Resources!

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September 1, 2021

Small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) often find it difficult to balance the day-to-day need for data with the cost of employing data scientists or professional analysts to help with forecasting, analysis, data preparation and other complex analytical tasks.

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Leverage Self Serve Data Preparation for All Users!

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August 3, 2021

Self Service Data Preparation Makes Data Accessible to Business Users!

Preparing data for analysis used to be a long, difficult process performed by IT or data scientists. Needless to say, that process meant that business users could not get the job done. They were forced to make a request, wait for the process to be completed and then, more than likely, for the same team to actually perform the analysis. If the data prep was not accurate or was incomplete, the process starts all over OR produces poor results and, in many cases, those poor results are not obvious to the business user. What does that mean? It means that the business is using information and results that they do not know are wrong!

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Self-Serve Advanced Analytics Offers a Collaborative, Empowered Environment to SMEs!

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June 30, 2021

The use of business intelligence and business analytics is growing in every industry, business function and in companies of every size. 48% of small and medium sized business CIOs responding to a Gartner survey revealed that business intelligence (BI), data and analytics is one of the technology areas that will have the largest amount of new or additional spending.

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Self-Serve Data Preparation Prepares You for the Future!

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March 25, 2021

Don’t Be Afraid of Self-Serve Data Preparation! It’s Easy. You Can Do It!

Oh, the mysterious world of data preparation! It is daunting and confusing and…wait, no! It doesn’t have to be. If you aren’t employed as an IT professional, a business analyst or a data scientist, you probably see this arena as confusing and intimidating and you probably want nothing to do with data preparation. BUT, when you need a report, or you have to provide a recommendation to your boss in a staff meeting, you desperately need that data and that analysis, don’t you?

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Why Do You Need Self-Serve Data Preparation?

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March 7, 2018

Is Self-Serve Data Prep, REALLY Self-Serve?

Self-Serve Data Preparation Takes the Headache Out of Data Analytics!

Self-Serve Data Preparation (aka augmented data preparation) is all about efficiency and the presentation of sophisticated data preparation tools in an easy-to-use environment. The idea behind self-service data preparation is to give the average business user the ability to prepare, use, report on and share data without the assistance of IT staff or analysts, thereby making their jobs easier and making every team member more of an asset to the organization.

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Is Self-Serve Data Prep the Same as Augmented Data Prep?

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February 27, 2018

Self-Serve Data Prep is Possible and Wonderful!

Self-Serve Data Preparation and Augmented Data Prep Go Hand in Hand!

I was talking to a friend the other day and she shared with me her experience at a recent business intelligence conference. She was a bit confused by some of the terminology and we spent a few minutes parsing the terms and talking about the concept of self-serve data preparation. She was confused by the fact that self-serve data prep and augmented data preparation are often mentioned in the same discussion.

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Self-Serve Data Preparation Doesn’t Mean Traditional ETL is Dead!

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January 4, 2018

Self-Serve Data Preparation Doesn't Mean Traditional ETL is Dead!

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) refers to a process of connecting to data sources, integrating data from various data sources, improving data quality, aggregating it and then storing it in staging data source or data marts or data warehouses for consumption of various business applications including BI, Analytics and Reporting. It offers high quality data, which otherwise resides in poorly structured heterogeneous, complicated data sources.

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What is Self-Serve Data Preparation and How Can It Support Business Users?

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December 8, 2017

What is Self-Serve Data Preparation and How Can It Support Business Users?

Self-Serve Data Preparation is the next generation of business analytics and business intelligence. Self-serve data preparation makes advanced data discovery accessible to team members and business users no matter their skills or technical knowledge.

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