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Hybrid Mobile App vs. Native? You Decide!

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January 25, 2022

Native vs. Hybrid Mobile App Dev? A Toss-Up or a Hands-Down Decision?

Your business may be planning a mobile application for business users or perhaps you plan to launch a mobile app in the consumer market. Whatever your plan, you will have to decide whether to design and develop your mobile application using a native approach or a hybrid mobile application approach for cross-platform mobile app compliance. If you are facing this decision, you should first consider how broadly your application may be used by your target audience and decide which approach will work best for your business needs and for future upgrades and expansion into the market or to accommodate shifts in user expectations and market changes.

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Transform Business Users Into Citizen Data Scientists!

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January 20, 2022

Recognize and Address Recent Market Changes with Citizen Data Scientists!

While many of you may follow the research and market analytics provided by Gartner, you may sometimes find yourselves wondering if their predictions and market analysis are correct. When it comes to the predicted transformation of business users into Citizen Data Scientists, that particular transition has been happening for a while now. If anything, the global pandemic has simply made the prediction more pressing than ever.

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Democratize BI Tools: Information is Power!

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January 7, 2022

Why Democratize Business Intelligence? Lots of Reasons!

Perhaps you have resisted the temptation to democratize data in your organization. Your resistance may come from in-house, in the form of those who tell you that data governance is impossible in an environment where you spread your data far and wide. Perhaps you believe that the average business user cannot and will not use business intelligence tools, so any expense or time to implement such a solution would be wasteful. Perhaps you feel that the value of such a solution and of user adoption of these tools is overrated, and that ROI and TCO would not be worth the time and effort.

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What’s So Great About Augmented Analytics?

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December 16, 2021

Why I Won’t Stop Talking About Augmented Analytics!

What Are the Benefits of Augmented Analytics? Where Do I Start?

Those who know me are probably tired of hearing me talk about the benefits of Augmented Analytics. To them, I say, ‘I am sorry’. I am about to talk about it yet again. The reason is simple. Most businesses are either considering the addition of augmented analytics to democratize data, improve data literacy and create Citizen Data Scientists OR they are still unconvinced and feel that they are just fine. Either way, your business professionals and managers can use a primer on the benefits of augmented analytics, whether it is used to support their decision or to convince the team that augmented analytics should be pursued!

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BI Tools with R Integration Make Users Happy!

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December 9, 2021

What is R Scripting and Why Do I Need it Integrated in My BI Tool?

Don’t you hate it when someone blurts out a mysterious term at a business conference and you are left to decide whether to reveal your ignorance by asking what they are talking about, or simply nodding your head and smiling as if you understand and agree? I hate it when that happens.

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How Can I Protect My Biz and My Software?

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December 2, 2021

Protect Your Biz with Software Quality, Testing, Security & Compliance Services!

One of the most overlooked aspects of software product and software application development is the need to protect your business, its users, your customers, your reputation and your legal standing by providing ample, multi-layered security protocols, assuring privacy and industry and government compliance. Businesses should include ample testing, quality methodologies and security and compliance protections in every software app project.

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What’s Predictive Analytics All About and Why Should I Care?

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November 17, 2021

Why Sasha Doesn’t Need to Fear Predictive Analytics!

My friend Sasha asked me about Predictive Analytics (knowing it was my favorite subject). Like most other business people, Sasha has a lot of professional knowledge but no exposure to analytics and the concept of Predictive Analytics is frightening and foreign to her. If your business team wants to up its game and get into predictive analytics, it really isn’t that hard. You can select an augmented analytics tool that allows your business users to leverage these features without a data science or business analyst background.

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How Can My Busy IT Team Support and Maintain Software?

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November 8, 2021

Is There a Better Way to Ensure Timely Software Support and Maintenance?

Like most businesses, yours had probably grown and is vastly different now than it was at its inception. You’ve added software, maybe even built some yourself, and your technology infrastructure has changed to accommodate the changing times, security and user needs, etc. As your technology landscape changes and you add best-of-breed, enterprise applications, mobile apps and other solutions, you find yourself in a much more complex and detailed environment than you anticipated.

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Expert Consulting Help for Software Companies!

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October 28, 2021

Software Company Partnerships: Your Secret Weapon to Market and Product Success!

If you are managing or own a software company, you are hard at work on your products and services. You know your clients and your business well and you focus on attracting and retaining customers. Your management team has developed a comprehensive understanding of your market, your competitors, and the technology environment you will use to pursue your targets. BUT, when it comes to having the time and the resources to achieve all of your goals, you may fall short. Perhaps you are short-handed, or you have not focused on specific technical or leadership skills to accomplish a particular task or complete a certain project.

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How to Assure Citizen Data Scientist Success!

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October 11, 2021

Enterprise Culture Change Assures Success of Citizen Data Scientist Initiatives!

Many businesses have embraced the Gartner prediction that transforms business users into Citizen Data Scientists to help organizations democratize analytics with simple tools that will improve the quality and timeliness of decisions. You can read white papers, industry articles and other publications that will support and articulate this approach to business flexibility, agility and success. But, if you do not embrace the culture change required to deploy this strategy across your enterprise, your Citizen Data Scientist initiative will not succeed.

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