Project teams that rely on data will find that their decisions turn out to be right more often than not. Data analytics can help them accelerate their profitability and identify further opportunities for growth. Read More
But for all the different kinds of Business Intelligence solutions, there’s one thing they all have in common: user adoption remains low, hovering around 30%. Read More
Do you know that 90 percent of end users won’t use a self-service analytics solution if it’s not as fast as Google? They don’t have a big attention span. Google trained them to expect data called from around the world instantly, according to Wayne Eckerson.
An analytics solution needs to deliver data in real time without lagging or user adoption will suffer.
Wayne told software product teams at the Izenda Embedded BI User Conference that the hardest thing to get people to do is to change. By delivering BI and analytics, a software company becomes a change agent. When you introduce something new, a few folks greet it with open arms. The bulk of people will, as good corporate citizens, eventually come on board. Read More
A subset of your application’s users – call them analysts, power users or techies – will immediately grasp the value of ad hoc analytics and make it useful for their reporting needs. This may be the top 20% of end users if you’re lucky. But there will always be a larger population of casual end users who also need ad hoc reporting. You cannot ignore their needs and expect them to see self-service analytics as a valuable element of your application. So the question becomes when launching self-service analytics in your application, how do you get these users on board? Read More
Executives who don’t create a data-driven culture for their companies for decision-making waste the opportunity to draw insights that reveal ways to increase sales, cut costs, drive efficiencies and beat out their competitors. Read More
