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Better Ways to Use Your Self-Service Analytics Platform

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Many companies relegate their self-service analytics platform to delivering very basic reports, with standard visualizations for more insight. But that tool can provide many more benefits to better serve the business.

Here at Izenda, our Sales department makes use of a “battle station.” We’ve put real-time information into a series of dashboards and visualizations presented in a slideshow format using our own BI and analytics solution. Account executives – and the rest of us – can see how many deals they’ve closed. Business development specialists can see how many leads they’ve processed and brought to the next level. Our VPs of Sales and Marketing can, at a glance, see the status of all the staff. That includes how individuals, and the team, have progressed toward meeting their goals. Read More

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How Self-Service Analytics Improves Operational Performance, Application Value

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Self-service analytics has been sought by users tired of waiting for IT, data scientists or other specialists to produce variations of reports and dashboards. Expectations for business intelligence and analytics have changed. Users expect real-time data to examine KPIs and performance metrics that matter to their businesses more than ever before. They won’t wait for IT to deliver a custom report or dashboard. If you give them yesterday’s data or send them to another application for analytics, they’ll just go back to relying on their gut instinct. Read More

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Self-Service Analytics Works Best if You Use the Data at Hand

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I spent Monday afternoon watching the solar eclipse in the mountains of north Georgia. One fellow observer got me thinking about how it’s not enough to have data – you also need to know when and how to use it.

I’m certain this eclipse enthusiast did some serious damage to his eyes despite having ISO certified solar eclipse glasses. While he used the eclipse glasses, twice I saw him lifting them up above his eyes to look at the sun with a normal pair of sunglasses. I guess he was comparing the difference between the two. Read More

Owler community designates Izenda CEO as Top Rated in 2017

Analysts, Reviewers Call Izenda Self-Service Analytics a Winner

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Owler named Izenda CEO Bill Curran a 2017 Top Rated CEO, based on insights and contributions from active business professionals. This landed him in the top 12 for Top Rated CEOs in metro Atlanta.

The Owler community also included him among the Most Liked SMB CEOs.

This added to the recognition Izenda has gained from analysts, software review organizations and reviewers in recent months. Read More

Embedded analytics leaders enjoy 55% reduction in sales cycle times

Choose the Best Self-Service Analytics Solution for your Application

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What makes an embedded self-service analytics platform the right choice to integrate with a software company’s application? Consider the fast, seamless integration process that takes a fraction of the time compared to many other BI tools.

Faster Time to Market, Larger Deal Sizes

Choosing a modern analytics solution simplifies a complex problem for their applications. Self-service analytics from Izenda can embed into your application for a seamless workflow in as little as 30 to 60 days. Read More

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Deliver the Right Amount of Analytics at the Right Time

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The business end users of today’s software applications need a specific set of numbers answering a specific question to make their analysis of the company’s data. They don’t want to go through enormous sets of data. Instead, we need to give them the tools in our web-based analytics solutions to manage their data and queries on it so that they get the instant results they expect. Read More

How To Get Users To Adopt Self-Service Analytics

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Desktop with Izenda DashboardA subset of your application’s users – call them analysts, power users or techies – will immediately grasp the value of ad hoc analytics and make it useful for their reporting needs. This may be the top 20% of end users if you’re lucky. But there will always be a larger population of casual end users who also need ad hoc reporting. You cannot ignore their needs and expect them to see self-service analytics as a valuable element of your application. So the question becomes when launching self-service analytics in your application, how do you get these users on board? Read More