The Data Export Problem No One Talks About – And Why It Quietly Hurts Your Product

Why Data Exports Quietly Undermine Product Value Do your customers export data to Excel or Power BI every week? Do they build their own dashboards outside your product? Do they ask for CSVs even though you already offer reports inside the platform? These signals look […]

Embedding Analytics with Flexibility: How Smarten Helps ISVs Navigate Licensing & Deployment

Flexible Embedded Analytics for Modern ISVs Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) face pressure to add analytics inside their applications. Customers expect insights inside the product they already use. ISVs want a simple way to deliver this without breaking their pricing or licensing structure. The problem often […]

What I Learned Building Analytics for ISVs: Adoption Isn’t a Feature, It’s a Mindset

Why Analytics Adoption Matters More Than Features I spent the last few years Building Analytics Solutions for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). In a conversation with a partner who had integrated our platform six months prior, I was surprised to learn that User Adoption was poor. […]

Embedded BI: What Makes a User Adopt BI Tools?

Embedded BI: Productivity vs. User Needs Executives and managers may want to believe that staff and team members will always embrace and adopt new tools and processes just because they are told that these tools or processes will help the company. But this belief does […]

White Paper: Conversational AI and NLP Analytics Reduces the Dependence and Usage of Traditional BI Tools, and Improves User Adoption and Data Democratization

Conversational AI and NLP AnalyticsReduces the Dependence and Usage of Traditional BI Tools, and Improves User Adoption and Data Democratization The incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language processing (NLP) in existing business intelligence and self-serve analytics tools has had (and will continue to […]

Which BI or Analytics Tool is Best for My Business?

Traditional BI, Augmented Analytics, or Modern BI/Analytics? Whether your business is planning to acquire a business intelligence (BI) or augmented analytics tool for a first-time installation or looking to upgrade an existing system, the decision starts with the ‘what’ of the solution. What kind of […]

Smarten Support Portal Updates – December – 2025!

We invite you to explore our latest knowledgebase articles and to join the Smarten user community on Smarten Support Portal. If you have not registered yet, Click Here to obtain your login credentials. Knowledgebase Articles Datasets & Cubes : Data Operations GeoMap : Workflow to […]

Should I Choose Cloud-Based or On-Premises Business Intelligence?

Choosing Between Cloud and On-Premises Augmented Analytics Your business may be upgrading a business intelligence solution OR it may be considering the implementation of business intelligence (BI) for the first time. Either way, you will be faced with numerous decisions as you navigate the augmented […]

Why on Earth Would I Want to Be a Citizen Data Scientist?

What’s a Citizen Data Scientist and Why Should I Care? In 2015, Gartner coined the term, ‘Citizen Data Scientist’ and since then, the data analytics community and global business markets have never looked back! The results of Citizen Data Scientists initiatives were spotty, at best, […]