how to evaluate an embedded analytics solution

Evaluating Embedded Analytics for your Application

By | Embedded Analytics
When doing research for an embedded analytics solution for your application, you’ll likely be overwhelmed with content. But a lot of that content is only focused on the implementation process – specifically the benefits of embedded analytics.

But choosing an embedded analytics solution for your application is no easy task – nor should it be taken lightly. Of course, there are benefits – but businesses like yours want more than a list of benefits. You want advice.

We’ve got you covered. Through our years of experience in the BI space, we’ve developed an in-depth guide to the before and after of embedded analytics – the evaluation process and key steps to take after its implementation.

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Better Ways to Use Your Self-Service Analytics Platform

By | Self-Service Analytics | No Comments
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

Sears Turns Shuttered Stores into Data Centers

By | Business, IT and Engineering

In this week’s brilliant business news…

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a long-established and behemoth business make a brilliant business move. It doesn’t happen as often as we’d like. But Sears has definitely done it.

a Sears department store storefrontUnder a newly-created unit of Sears Holdings, Ubiquity Critical Environments, the company will utilize its shuttered Sears and Kmart facilities for data centers, disaster relief sites, and cell phone tower sites. The company has a massive real estate portfolio, with 3,200 properties comprising more than 25 million square feet of space. As dozens of the stores included in this total have closed over the past several decades, Sears hopes to make this conversion a solid shift into the 21st century, digital-based economy.

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