If You Want Business Users to Embrace BI Tools, You Need to Focus on Simplicity!
If your enterprise has not already adopted business intelligence tools, it is missing a crucial benefit in competitive positioning and accurate, dependable decision-making. If your organization has implemented BI tools, but you are falling short on user adoption success, return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO), it is probably because the business intelligence solution is not meant to support business users.
PC Magazine says that, as business users are asked to leverage BI tools, the enterprise must focus on simplicity to engender user adoption.
‘When your team can access BI tools that support the way they work and provide meaningful views and features to easily integrate with work and business processes, user adoption is easier and more immediate.’
To achieve your enterprise goals, ensure user adoption and get the most out of your investment, you must focus on two things: user-friendly features and function and sophisticated analytics.
In this article, we list some of the considerations for business intelligence solution selection or product upgrade. This list is meant to help you assess your current solution, and/or review the capabilities of any BI tool you are considering.
Simplicity in Technology:
- 100% browser-based solution
- Intuitive interface
- Mobile application that is suitable for iOS and Android
- Simple, affordable licensing
- Rapid implementation (roll out in minutes, not months)
- Simple, multi-layered access and user rights management
- Simple architecture
Simplicity of Use:
- Ability to personalize dashboards
- KPI Reporting
- Easy-to-use reporting tools
- Collaborative features
- Social BI for sharing, ranking and commenting
- Smart Data Visualization
- Assisted Predictive Modeling
- Self-Serve Data Preparation
- Clickless analytics for easy searching and results
The business intelligence tools you select can and should include out-of-the-box, ready-to-use features that are designed to support your applications, your industry, and/or your business function. When your team can access BI tools that support the way they work and provide meaningful views and features to easily integrate with work and business processes, user adoption is easier and more immediate.
‘To achieve your enterprise goals, ensure user adoption and get the most out of your investment, you must focus on two things: user-friendly features and function and sophisticated analytics.’
Look for Ready-To-Use Tools that users will want to adopt. Provide business intelligence that your IT team can easily implement and support, with features your users will readily leverage. Choose flexible, agile business intelligence solutions that can be used at all levels to collaborate, share data, and report and communicate with clarity. Self-Serve BI Tools can provide your business with the foundation to achieve your data democratization and user adoption goals.
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