When you choose a BI tool that is appropriate for your business users, you may be focused on ease-of-use and on Citizen Data Scientist and data democratization and data literacy initiatives but, don’t forget your analysts, data scientists and IT team members!
‘R’ is not just a letter in the alphabet! R is a programming language, offered in a free software environment that supports analysts, IT and data scientists in doing tasks that require statistical computing. The R language is very popular and is used in many organizations around the world to support statistical analysis and data mining. When a business implements a business intelligence solution, IT staff, data analysts and data scientists are often put into a quandary. The enterprise is actively using and benefiting from R but the BI tool the business selected forces them to choose between tools to get the job done.
I am all for getting the most out of what I buy, so I like it when a service provider makes my life easier by making their products work with the products I already own, or uses clever methods to allow me to merge, integrate or pair products to get more value. One such example is my business intelligence solution. The BI tool I use integrates with R scripting so my team does not need programming support to achieve integration and everyone in our division can leverage the business intelligence tools and smart visualization features to analyze the R Script output. My team already knows the R Script tool, so this makes our life much easier!
