By some estimates, a business will experience a three-month lag between the time a report is produced and the point at which the enterprise sees improvement or results from the changes the report recommends or predicts. If the reporting is unclear or unconvincing, the recommendations may never be implemented and the report will sit in a file on someone’s computer.
Year: 2022
This article should serve as a plea on behalf of the average business user!
Business users are business professionals who have expertise in an industry or market arena or perform a function to support the ongoing operation of the business – professionals who may be front line workers on a production line, finance professionals, sales representatives, non-profit office workers, medical researchers, middle managers, regional managers for retail chains, transportation dispatchers or…well, you get the idea. These team members know their job and they do it well. But, they probably don’t have the technical skills to write a SQL query, or to filter out the columns and fields for an analytical search in order to get the results they need to make a decision.
Your Business Can Enjoy the Proven Benefits of Digital Transformation!
Recent research reveals that digital business initiatives benefit businesses in numerous ways. No matter your market, industry or business size, digital transformation (Dx) is important to results, competitive positioning and productivity.
Why You Need Both BI Tools and Augmented Analytics and What to Consider When Selecting a Vendor
According to a West Monroe Partners’ survey, 68% of business and technology leaders surveyed don’t believe their competitors are leveraging data successfully. Obviously, when it comes to your competitive market space, your business does not want to exist in that 68% of the pie chart! Your senior execs and managers want to leverage data and information to gain a competitive advantage and succeed.
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Think of What Citizen Data Scientists Can Do to Help Your Business!
Whether you have recently been nominated to become a Citizen Data Scientist or you are considering the value of this type of transition for your business, managers and team members alike often ask exactly what a Citizen Data Scientist can do. According to technology research firm, Gartner, the number of Citizen Data Scientists will grow at five times the rate of traditional data scientists. If that’s the case, there must be something to this trend, right?
Why Should I Hire Python Programmers Rather Than Doing the Work Myself?
According to Python, 1.4% of sites on the internet use Python. While that may not seem impressive, consider this: 1.3% rank in the top 1,000,000 sites available on the internet. So, what does that mean? It means that of the sites available (and that’s a lot), sites that use Python rank in the top million. Perhaps this is why your business is currently considering a Python application development project, or perhaps you are considering Python because you have looked at the other available programming options and decided that this one meets your needs.
The technology research and consulting firm, Gartner predicted that ‘By 2023, 60% of organizations will compose components from three or more analytics solutions to build business applications infused with analytics that connect insights to actions.’
The technology research firm, Gartner has predicted that, ‘predictive and prescriptive analytics will attract 40% of net new enterprise investment in the overall business intelligence and analytics market.’ When combined with Citizen Data Scientist initiatives, the adoption and use of predictive modeling and forecasting techniques can be a boon to any enterprise. Team members who have access to augmented analytics and assisted predictive modeling can plan better, predict more accurately and dependably meet goals and objectives.
Your business has decided to create a hybrid mobile application – perhaps for the consumer market, perhaps for a business application to be used by your team members within the enterprise. No matter the type, industry, purpose or concept, a mobile application development project is complicated and should be handled by a skilled, experienced team to ensure that the requirements, design, development, testing and implementation are accurate, cost-effective, timely and supportive of your business goals and objectives.
