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Introduce BI Software Effectively in 5 Steps

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Businesses have access to plenty of data about customers, prospects, suppliers, competitors, business processes, and much more, which can make it difficult to leverage data to gain actionable insights. Business intelligence (BI) software is a solution to these challenges that enables businesses to transform this flood of data into information that can increase productivity and profitability.

Find out how to effectively introduce BI software into your organization in five steps. Read More

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Embedding Izenda – Experience the Difference

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As a business owner, your time is precious. Taking the time for coding and individual analytics requests not only pulls you from your core competencies, but it also wastes your valuable resources.

Fortunately, Izenda has the business intelligence solution to all your needs. Learn more about our embedded BI software benefits and features and see what sets us apart from the competition. Read More

Say Hello to Better Business With BI Software

Say Hello to Better Business With BI Software

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Business intelligenceย (BI) may be thought of as statistics and reports, but true potential for your business lies beneath the surface. BI tools harness the power of your data, which can be used to tackle the biggest business challenges.

Learn how different BI solution categories can meet different business analytics needs, so you can get the most out of your BI software. Read More

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Hedge Against the Future with Izenda Business Intelligence

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Buy Izenda. But seriously, make sure that your BI solution continues to meet the demands of your customers, prospects, and development teams. Listening to those people is going to be key in finding out what they’ve heard, what is becoming more common in the market, and what features your tool should have. If your current solution fails to meet these benchmarks as time goes on, it might be time to re-evaluate. Read More

Business Intelligence Meets the HoloLens

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HoloLens demo at WPC15Will augmented reality be the next big thing for data visualization? If Microsoft has anything to say about it, yes, it will.

Since this blog first published in July 2015, ย much has happened – but Microsoft still hasn’t released a retail version. Now it appears that it won’t be until 2019 that we’ll see the next version of the HoloLens, according to an article by Tom Warren of The Verge. Yep, that’s three years after developers first got their hands on it.

Up until recently the only way you could see what people using the HoloLens were doing was by attending a Microsoft conference that featured it. But now, according to Warren’s coworker Lauren Goode, Microsoft has released its “spectator view” as an open source solution. Check it out on the HoloLens GitHub page. Read More

Finding Golden Nuggets in Your Data

By | BI Innovation, Big Data, Business, Customer Success, Technology

Film stripThe New York Times, in a March 22 article, focused on the challenges for Kodak, the onetime king of photography, as it attempts to redefine itself in a fast-changing business environment.

Kodakโ€™s researchers actually invented digital photography in the ’90s, but the company remained focused on the revenue generated from traditional photography. Even before cameras became an essential part of the smartphone, sales for traditional film were plummeting.

โ€œFor Kodak, the advent of digital photography was ruinous. Today it has $2 billion in annual sales, compared with $19 billion in 1990 when consumer film was king. It now has 8,000 employees worldwideอพ it had 145,000 at its peak,โ€ the Times article points out.

The point here is to not single out Kodak for any past decisions or performance. The list of large 20th Century companies that could not adapt to a changing technological (or consumer) landscape is endless. Read More

Understanding the Value of Small Data

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Izenda Tech Blog logoMuch has been written about big data and how it is revolutionizing business and business intelligence. Today, weโ€™re going to give some recognition to aย less hyped sibling โ€“ small data.

Allen Bonde, VP of Product Marketing and Innovation at Actuate, has been written about small data in many places, includingย the Small Data Group blog. His definition of small data:

โ€œSmall data connects people with timely, meaningful insights (derived from big data and/or โ€œlocalโ€ sources), organized and packaged โ€“ often visually โ€“ to be accessible, understandable, and actionable for everyday tasks.โ€

Put even more simply, big data is about machines; small data is about people. Read More