What is Modern BI and How is it Different From Traditional BI?

What is Modern BI and How is it Different From Traditional BI?

Business Intelligence isn’t new but the way we gather, analyze and digest this intelligence is definitely changing. In the past, business intelligence was delivered to senior executives by IT and/or business analysts. The combination of a fast-paced business environment and a limited budget and limited resource reality means that most organizations must optimize resources and time to produce results. There are few businesses today that have the luxury of waiting for information, data or reports.

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Data Analytics Software: Affordable and Appropriate for All!

Data Analytics Tools are Right for Every Size Business!

Should My Small Business or Start-Up Use Data Analytics?

When a start-up or small business looks at its budget and resources, it often concludes that, while data analytics is important to its business, data analytics tools may be too complex, too sophisticated and too expensive to include in its initiatives and programs.

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BI Reporting Tools & Business Intelligence Solutions for All!

BI Tools and BI Dashboards for Business Users!

What is Business Intelligence and How Can Dashboarding Tools Help Me?

There has been a lot of discussion about Business Intelligence over the past decade. Business professionals hear this term in industry conferences and read about it in trade journals. But, many struggle to define the concept, so let’s start this discussion with a business intelligence definition.

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Guarantee BI Success: Achieve! Accomplish! Do it Right!

Guarantee BI Success: Achieve! Accomplish! Do it Right!

In our first article in the two-article series, entitled ‘Guarantee BI Success: Why Self-Serve BI Initiatives Fail, we talked about the various factors that can dictate the success or failure of a self-serve business intelligence solution implementation. Factors like poor User Adoption, Data Access, Features and Benefits, Self-Serve Analytical Capability, Data Sharing and Reporting, Cost vs. Benefit, and Data Discovery issues must be considered in order to ensure the success of your self-serve business intelligence initiative.

Right Tool, Right Time, RIGHT NOW! Self-Serve BI vs Restricted Dashboards/Access

Mobile-BIHave you ever been frustrated because you didn’t have the right tool for the job? You know what I’m talking about. You need something now – information, or a tool – but you don’t have access. AH! So aggravating.

Now, consider your business intelligence situation:

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Welcome to the Data Buffet! Self-Serve BI Tools to Satisfy Every Appetite

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What if you paid for a self-serve buffet but you were only allowed to eat the items someone else picked for you, or you could only go to certain self-serve stations, while others were off limits? You wouldn’t be happy! Especially if you had to pay full price for the experience!

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Self-Serve BI and Data Governance: Not Mutually Exclusive

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I spend a lot of time explaining the idea of self-serve business intelligence and helping people understand that self-serve BI tools do not, by their nature, open the door to data chaos or data anarchy. IT pros, managers and business people often confuse self-serve access to business intelligence with poor security, privacy erosion and data control issues.

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