Do Citizen Data Scientists Need Special Analytics Tools?

Data Scientists Focus on Strategy, Citizen Data Scientists Deliver Daily!

When Gartner talks about expanding data analytics to business users, they also talk about how the analytical tools must be suitable for business users. If a business wants to implement a Citizen Data Scientist initiative and encourage their business users to become more productive and valuable within the business environment, that business must provide tools that are easy enough for the average business user and will allow them to easily adopt these tools to make day-to-day decisions.

Case Study: Elegant MicroWeb Forges a Partnership with UK Digital Agency for Offshore Development and Support

The Client Partner is a digital agency based in the United Kingdom. This long-standing business provides branding and digital solutions. Their core strength provides market differentiation with branding and print solutions. The Client team includes creative designers with graphic and web design skills. The business offers services including website, software, and web application development.

What began as a single project scope has expanded and deepened into a meaningful, seamless partnership between the Client and the Elegant MicroWeb team that has lasted more than five years and continues to grow with rich collaboration and a tandem team approach to planning, design, development and deployment. This partnership ensures seamless, comprehensive support for end-users of Client services and products and produces innovative, world-class solutions.

Case Study: Property Assessment and Water Management Software Solution for a Smart City in India

The Client is one of several smart cities identified within the urban municipalities in India. Smart Cities focus on prioritizing pressing needs and identify the greatest opportunities to improve living conditions. As a smart city, the Client organization uses a range of approaches to achieve its goals including digital and information technologies, urban planning best practices, public-private partnerships, and policy changes.

The Elegant MicroWeb team collaborated with the Client team to develop a comprehensive understanding of requirements, workflow and processes and to define a database design and architecture to meet these requirements. Using the Agile Development Methodology, the Elegant MicroWeb team developed modules as part of an ERP system and implemented these modules, working with users to deploy, train and support in a way that was most meaningful to the user base in a particular role or location. The resulting application provides a centralized view of all core activities and processes and allows for advanced reporting for units and teams, optimizing resources and ensuring productivity while alleviating the manual management and reporting processes previously in place.

Be Sure You Support Your Citizen Data Scientists!

Getting Started on the Citizen Data Scientist Path!

If you follow technology publications and predictions, you know that Citizen Data Scientists are the big news for business. By transforming business users into Citizen Data Scientists, the business can leverage the professional skills and knowledge of an individual team member and combine that knowledge with data analytics to get the best answers, forecast and predict, solve problems and identify business opportunities.

Case Study: Negotiation Approval & Workflow App for UK Construction Equipment Manufacturer Sales Team in India Office

This Client is based in the U.K. and is a leading manufacturer of earthmoving and construction equipment in India. The Client manufactures a wide range of world-class equipment in its state-of-the-art global factories. The Client has established business operations around the world and creates employment opportunities and programs to enhance skills, support the pursuit higher education and diplomas and create entrepreneur opportunities to help team members excel in their careers.

The Elegant MicroWeb team collaborated with the Client team to complete development, provide support for 3rd party security compliance testing and roll-out the Negotiation and Approval Workflow Application and deliver the solution to users based on Client requirements. The new solution created a seamless environment where users can quickly learn and complete tasks with an automated process and workflow for negotiations, pricing changes and approvals etc. This solution reduces the time required to process and complete the sales cycle and ensures that the customer interest is preserved, while improving productivity and assuring an accurate process that is easy to understand, monitor, manage and approve. As Client users embrace this solution, the Client plans to include roll-out to other international offices outside India.

From Business Intelligence to Augmented Analytics: What and Why

Augmented Analytics is the Next Generation of BI Tools for Business Users

As business intelligence solutions and BI Tools evolve into Augmented Analytics, business users can achieve valuable insight and take appropriate action to optimize resources and enable continuous improvement. As Gartner has predicted, the market is responding to business needs by transforming business intelligence tools into sophisticated Advanced Analytics that are easy-to-use. These augmented analytics solutions support the needs of the average business user, improve productivity and collaboration, and assure data democracy and Data Literacy across the organization.

Case Study: Offshore Development for U.S. Health and Wellness Practitioner Diagnostic Portal

The Client business is dedicated to scientific discovery, unparalleled quality, and health and wellness practitioner partnerships. This foundation has positioned the Client team as an industry leader in functional nutrition. The business develops, manufactures, markets and distributes nutrition and lifestyle supplements and offers nutraceuticals and nutritional supplements for blood sugar support, cardiovascular health, gastrointestinal, immune, joint health, stress management, and detoxification and their products.

The Elegant MicroWeb worked closely with the Client team to define the requirements and execute the project. This project resulted in close engagement through a practitioner portal with impressive user adoption by the target audience. The user-friendly solution met all Client objectives and Client and end-user satisfaction with the solution resulted in the engagement of the Elegant MicroWeb full suite of offshore development services with dedicated resources to support the Client, its partners and end-users and to manage, maintain, enhance and scale the system so the Client can sustain and succeed in the market.

How Do I Ensure Citizen Data Scientist Success?

Identify Citizen Data Scientists and Provide the Support They Need to Succeed

When your business decides to begin a Citizen Data Scientist initiative, it faces numerous challenges but the resulting benefits the enterprise will reap from this program are undeniable. With the right preparation, every business can successfully enable this type of initiative and provide augmented analytics to improve collaboration, data literacy and digital transformation in the organization.

A Citizen Data Scientist Project Requires Culture Change!

When a business chooses to follow the guidance of Gartner and embrace the Citizen Data Scientist initiative to transform business users and provide analytical tools for all team members, it must approach the initiative with appropriate planning.

Case Study: Elegant MicroWeb Develops Dealer and Quote Management Portal for India Cable Solutions and Products Business

This Client is a leading supplier of integrated solutions and branded products in the field of cable and connection technology. Its business market includes all of India with offices around the country. The business originated in Germany and today is active world-wide

The Elegant MicroWeb team collaborated with the Client team to develop requirements and design, develop and implement a Dealer and Quotations Management Portal, based on Client business requirements. The team delivered a seamless user experience with appropriate administrative and user access roles and security, and meaningful reporting and views to support user, customer, dealer, product and process requirements and ensure that approval processes, tracking and monitoring are completed in an effective and timely manner with full insight into the status of tasks and activities at every level. The project outcome automated processes and workflows to support the entire quotation process and makes it easier to categorize and manage roles, and organize tasks to support dealers, internal team members and customers and easily calculate and track profit margins for greater transparency across departments. The resulting approval process is easy and allows for swift approval and closure to improve business productivity and results.