But knowing when to use analytic reporting is only the beginning. You must also consider what type of report is best, or necessary, for your business?
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What is Self-Service Reporting
In business intelligence software, self-service reporting is an analytics model that empowers individual users with report-building and data analysis – rather than data scientists or statisticians. With easy access to data, end users can make data-driven business and operational decisions regardless of their technical background.
In short – self-service reporting is defined by the ease with which users can access it, and not how easy it is for IT professionals.
What major trends are changing the nature of the enterprise environment?
This question is constantly floated among technologists and industry experts, always looking ahead to what the workplace will look like in the next year, five years, and so on. Ars Technica recently made its definitive list, including:
- Moving mobile beyond the poor PC substitute
- The transformation of the “app”
- The social enterprise
- The IT department as integrator
We recently discussed the changing role of IT on the blog, and the other points listed are hot topics that come up often in tech industry speculation. The merits and reasoning behind each are sound.
Which do you think will have the biggest impact on the enterprise?
Predicting the future is hard, especially when you have an installed base to consider. But it’s not hard to identify the economic, technological, and cultural forces that are converging right now to shape the future of enterprise IT in the short term. We’re not entering a “post-PC” era in IT—we’re entering an era where the device we use to access applications and information is almost irrelevant. Nearly everything we do as employees or customers will be instrumented, analyzed, and aggregated.
Izenda opens doors by bringing its enterprise reporting tool into the open source community.
Sept. 9, 2013 – Atlanta, GA – In response to a customer request, engineers at Izenda have successfully run Izenda Reports on Linux servers. Windows Azure VMs enabled the team to start the process quickly without acquiring additional hardware. This represents a huge leap for the company, as it takes its product into the open source world.
“Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform enables Izenda to rapidly bring new products to market,” said Scott McLeod, VP of Engineering at Izenda. “Azure gives Izenda a competitive advantage by eliminating time consuming hardware procurement and administrative IT tasks, freeing key resources to focus on Izenda’s customers and core business,” McLeod concluded.
