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Empower Business Analysts to Manage Embedded Analytics Solution

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The promise of self-service analytics sounds pretty good, but for the IT teams still mired in setting up every tenant and user’s access rights, roles and permissions, it sure doesn’t sound like self-service, does it?

Software developers excel at creating applications that meet specific needs. They shouldn’t be tasked with daily maintenance or administration of the application nor forced to do coding to onboard new customers. With all the demands on their time, they shouldn’t be expected to master the intricacies of the industry the software application serves.

They create software by coding to the requirements provided by others who are in the best position to administer the application, manage onboarding customers, and make any configurations needed to support specific, customer, user or tenant’s needs. 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