Dawn rose today on February 3rd as the radio played through an app on my smartphone, only this morning the DJ decided to play Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe” just like in the movie Groundhog Day. In the movie Bill Murray’s character never made it to Feb. 3, remaining stuck on Groundhog Day as he started the day over and over again hearing that hit song. He hears it each morning at first with shock and confusion, then anger and eventually acceptance.
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Now that your software product has taken off and customer expectations continue to change, you probably are discovering that the legacy BI tool – and maybe even your application – aren’t scalable and require too much developer time to maintain. It’s time for an upgrade and with a team of developers in-house, you may be tempted to take on this project yourself. Read More
The modern idea of Business Intelligence (BI) has been used by big companies since the early days of data warehousing. BI didn’t start out as a complicated set of data analytics. Going back as far as there were people doing business, proprietors used BI to improve their odds of making a sale. The age of big data changed the rules somewhat, but that doesn’t mean that the game can’t be played by both big and small businesses. If you run a small business and think that BI and analytics are only for big corporations and only they can afford it, you couldn’t be more wrong. Read More
Businesses have increasing amounts of data to cleanse, as research suggests that data is growing at a rate of 40% of each year into the next decade, driven by increased online activity and usage of smart devices. (ABI, 2013). (The New York Times, 2014 ). Read More
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UConn Student Puts Data to Work for Red Sox Kid Nation Congratulations to UConn undergraduate Logan Bemont for being the first applicant for the Izenda Embedded BI & Analytics Scholarship. Read More
Self-service business intelligence has much to offer when integrated into an independent software vendor’s own application. Take a look at just six things the boss definitely should know about implementing self-service BI:
1: If business end users can create their own dashboards and reports – and dive into them for even more data – adoption of the business intelligence platform will be more widespread.
Make your client’s end users wait for new reports to be created by IT and you’ll find that few workers in any part of your client’s company will want to use this part of your application. Self-service features enhance its use rather than discourage it. Read More
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A soaring demand for data scientists puts more pressure on the analytics labor pool just as companies increase the amount of data they need to sift through. The shortfall of skilled workers will be so great that businesses need to find other solutions. For the small and mid-sized businesses, a team of data scientists – or even a single analytics specialist – might never be considered or fit in its budget.
Businesses, particularly SMBs, can find a solution to the shortage by presenting data to employees in a manner that allows them to make the daily business decisions that are necessary at any company. Self-service business intelligence can put the necessary data right in the hands of these employees. Read More
On Wednesday Microsoft revealed that its Azure cloud had grown to 50 trillion storage objects, an increase of 20 trillion since last year. Another 200,000 SQL databases were established in Azure in that time, raising the total to 1.4 million SQL databases.
Just in Azure alone we can see how data growth continues as detailed in Microsoft Build. The proliferation of data will only become more intense as businesses bring in more data from multiple sources to try to put actionable data into the hands of the users. Read More
As business intelligence is adopted across the organization, IT leaders should not consider self-service BI as a reduction in the importance of the department. The necessity for developers will not decrease one iota. Instead, the adoption of self-service BI will improve the playing field for IT. Read More
