Izenda Embedded Analytics and Technology Blog

Mar 02
2

Talking SMAC: Redefining World of Business

By | Big Data, Business, Customer Success, Technology, The Cloud

iPad and iPhone 5Have you heard the acronym SMAC? SMAC stands for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud, the four parts of what many describe as a new “digital industrial revolution.”

The term has become a buzzword among many tech and business leaders in the past few years. “The notion of combining social, mobile, analytics and cloud into one architectural pipe is gaining traction,” reads the headline from Computerworld.

“It’s like an industrial revolution of sorts, where you’re achieving the digital critical mass of some key foundational elements,” Ed Anderson, research vice president at Gartner, told the magazine. “We have this platform in cloud services that presents us with unlimited capacity of computational resources. With mobile we have this unprecedented ability to put connectivity into the hands of individuals and devices. Analytics gives us specific insights we never had before, and social media makes it all personal.” Read More

Feb 25
1

Gartner Confirms Move to Self-Service BI

By | BI Innovation, Big Data, Business, Customer Success, For Developers, IT and Engineering, Technology

Gartner this week released its annual Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms research, and we’re excited by one of its key findings. ByMonitor-Mockup2 2017, Gartner said the majority of business users and analysts will have access to self-service tools to prepare data for analysis.

Sound familiar? It should. Izenda has been offering self-service business-intelligence software since its inception. The move to self-service tools should not be a surprise to any organization who has embedded Izenda’s reports, dashboards, and visualizations. Their users already know the value of self-service BI.

“We are thrilled to see user-driven, self-service data discovery predicted to become mainstream in 2017,” Sanjay Bhatia, Izenda’s founder and CEO, said. “We think that most embedding strategies are incomplete. While many providers position their products as ’embedded BI’, their solutions routinely don’t go far enough.” Read More

Feb 23
1

Moving Data Beyond A ‘Faster Horse’

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

Izenda Tech Blog logoThere is an often misused quote attributed to Henry Ford, although there is no evidence he actually said it. “If I had asked the people what they wanted, they would’ve said faster horses,” the old saying goes.

That sentence prompts a lot of discussion in business and marketing circles. Many people dismiss it, suggesting it claims organizations shouldn’t look to their customers for answers or solutions to problems. Others contend the “quote” was about not just listening but understanding your customer’s needs and asking the right questions.

Look at the phrase through the world of business intelligence and it takes a different twist. Shaun Connelly of Teradata did so in a recent blog:

“Business people can generally tell you what they want, but struggle to know or communicate what they need. To be successful, Business and IT need to collaborate, spar a little bit and figure out what’s possible in terms of objectives, analysis, and actions to drive specific results.” Read More

Feb 20
1

Five Key Features Your Application Needs

By | BI Innovation, Big Data, Business, Customer Success, For Developers, IT and Engineering, Technology, The Cloud, Tips

Izenda Tech Blog logoBusiness application-users need and expect fast, real-time business intelligence. In the past, traditional reporting methods required waiting for IT to run a report that might take days to receive. In considering an embedded self-service BI solution, here are five key features your application needs:

Flexible Fields. It’s not enough to custom-build reports. You have to have the capability to add or revise fields, and your reports and dashboards have to change in real-time, and not require waiting for IT help. Read More

Feb 18
1

Finding the Long Tail of BI in Your Company

By | BI Innovation, Big Data, Business, Customer Success, For Developers, IT and Engineering, Technology, The Cloud

For 11 years, we’ve heard the buzzword “the long tail” prominently discussed in business. First applied to companies like Amazon, the theory is that the company makes more money through the volume of sales from lesser-known books and movies over time than it does from the popular blockbusters. The long tail of the sales chart is so long that all the small sales of lesser-known products add up to something very big.

41XfrH+XPeLFormer Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson first popularized the phrase in a 2004 magazine article and expanded upon it in his 2006 book, “The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More.”

What does this have to do with business intelligence? Richard Back, a BI architect at IPL, makes the connection in a recent post for Tech Radar. He brings the long tail concept into the world of data and analytics. Read More

Feb 16
0

Leveraging IoT for Digital Business

By | BI Innovation, Big Data, Business, Customer Success, For Developers, IT and Engineering, Technology, The Cloud

In the not-so-distant future, this likely will happen when you have a car accident. Sensors, connected with smart apps, will instantly: a) Gauge how seriously you may be hurt. b) Report the accident location to police and medical personnel. c) Determine how much damage your vehicle has sustained. d) Report the accident to your insurance company. e) If warranted, offer options on how to replace the car. f) If warranted, even alert your attorneys.

Izenda Tech Blog logoSound far-fetched? Not in the world described by Daryl Plummer, Research VP and Gartner Fellow. He gave a Gartner local briefing last week in Atlanta titled “Securing Digital Business Through an Internet of Things.”

Plummer focused on the implications for business in this growing Internet of Things (IoT) world, where everyday objects and machines have network connectivity, allowing them to send or receive data. Read More

Feb 13
0

Gigaom Research Paper Stresses Embedded, Self-Service BI

By | BI Innovation, Big Data, Business, Customer Success, For Developers, IT and Engineering, News & Events, Technology, The Cloud

Gigaom Research this week released a white paper stressing the importance of embedding modern BI (reporting, dashboards and visualizations) in a user’s work application. The report, titled “Embedded Analytics in the Self-Service BI Enterprise,” was underwritten by Izenda.

Paper CoverThe white paper explores:

• Why reporting, dashboard, and analytical solutions should be embedded in applications. • Why BI solutions should democratize access to data and lift the burden from IT and data science teams. • Why reporting functionality should have a professional look and feel that is natural for users. • Why adopting a third-party solution is usually the most sensible approach for ISVs and solutions providers. Read More

Feb 10
1

Izenda Now a Premier Partner with Employee Based Systems

By | Business, Customer Success, Izenda Reports, News & Events, Technology, The Cloud

Employee Based Systems, a Colorado-based company specializing in human relations software solutions, has issued a press release stating that its partnership with Izenda has been so well-received by its clients that Izenda is now a Premier Partner with the company.

The full press release, posted below, was published on PRWeb:

Izenda Now a Premier Partner with Employee Based Systems

EBS Classic with colorIzenda now a Premier Partner with Employee Based Systems providing businesses faster and more intelligent HR data analytics.

Denver, CO (PRWEB) February 17, 2015 — The Employee Based Systems (EBS) Izenda partnership has been so well-received by clients in providing businesses faster and more intelligent HR data analytics that Izenda is now a Premier Partner with EBS. Customers rely on EBS to provide them with an advanced Human Resource Information System (HRIS) solution that is loaded with data. “The challenge is how to make sense of that data to make better strategic business decisions. Our clients have been extremely pleased with the powerful reporting and impactful dashboards that clarify their decision-making process” said Jim Duty, CEO of EBS. Read More

Feb 09
0

The Risks and Hidden Benefits of Dark Data

By | BI Innovation, Big Data, Business, Customer Success, For Developers, IT and Engineering, Technology, The Cloud

The “dark Web” – the Wild West of underground Internet sites – has received a lot of attention and notoriety of late. But many people may not have heard of “dark data.” Practices regarding dark data have prompted a lot of discussion in data management circles.

Gartner originally coined the term. Condensed here, the definition of dark data is “the information assets organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes.”

Organizations often retain dark data for compliance purposes. “Storing and securing data typically incurs more expense (and sometimes greater risk) than value,” Gartner writes. Read More