A great business intelligence tool does not have to be complicated or expensive. If you want to do it right, you should strive for data democratization and look for a BI solution that is designed for business users with average technical skills. BI software that is meant to be used by your business users will allow for quick and accurate decisions, ensure that everyone is working with the right information.
If your business is like most, you are trying to focus on the facts! You want to measure results and make plans, using the facts rather than opinion or guesswork but that can be difficult. Key performance indicators (KPIs) allow you to establish and monitor metrics and measurements that will tell you whether activities, tasks, and processes are getting you to your goals and helping you to meet your objectives. KPI Software is crucial to the management of your workflow, training initiatives, investments etc.
A data discovery tool is a crucial tool for every business user in your organization. With so many sources of data, in so many locations with your enterprise, it is impossible for users to know whether they have access to complete, accurate data to make decisions.
Can Your Business Achieve Self-Serve Data Prep? Lots of my friends talk about the difficulty of preparing data for analysis and how long it takes to get IT or data scientists or analysts to take on the project, get the data prepared and run reports or perform analytics. Frankly, this problem is a puzzle to me!
If a business is trying to implement self-serve business intelligence tools, it must look at its organization, processes and culture to determine whether it is prepared to roll-out data democratization and provide direct access to business intelligence tools. Changes in the environment and the expectations can help to empower business users and hold them accountable and to encourage data popularity and data sharing to work toward transformation of business users to Citizen Data Scientists.
Tally® ERP 9 is an accounting and finance solution that is popular among business users in India. As a desktop app, Tally users have no access from outside the walls of the enterprise. Fortunately, Tally in mobile app form has extended the office environment so that users can access the Tally mobile app on the road, from home or from anywhere!
SSDP (otherwise known as self-serve data preparation) is the logical evolution of business intelligence analytical tools. With self-serve tools, data discovery and analytics tools are accessible to team members and business users across the enterprise.
Data prep can slow down analytics and cause delays. Self-service data preparation (when done right) can enable business users to leverage sophisticated, easy-to-use tools for self-serve ETL. Data extraction, transformation and loading (otherwise known as ETL) can be time-consuming and requires professional skills but self-service ETL will walk business users through an augmented data preparation process and take the complicated, confusing steps out of the process by helping the user make decisions on how to prepare, clean, reduce and use the data in the best way possible.
Business intelligence and analytics are necessary tools for every business today. No business manager or team member can make decisions in vacuum and business intelligence and analytics tools are key to fact-based, data-driven decisions that will ensure positive results, help the business to avoid missteps and critical errors and allow the enterprise to anticipate changes in the competitive landscape and in customer buying behavior.
Discover the Smarten approach to Augmented Analytics and Advanced Data Discovery tools. These tools allow business users to leverage augmented analytics that provide guides and suggestions to help the business user more quickly and effectively produce clear advanced analytics with little to no training, thereby transforming the average business user into a Citizen Data Scientist. Using the Smarten approach, users can quickly and easily prepare and analyze data and visualize and explore data, notate and highlight data and share data with others.
