Data Agility and ‘Popularity’​ vs. Data Quality in Self-Serve BI and Analytics!

One of the most valuable aspects of self-serve business intelligence is the opportunity it provides for data and analytical sharing among business users within the organization. When business users adopt true self-serve BI tools like Plug n’ Play Predictive Analysis, Smart Data Visualization, and Self-Serve Data Preparation, they […]

Plug n’​ Play Predictive Analysis for Business User Data Prototyping!

Whether your business is a small, single location brick and mortar enterprise or a large, multi-facility organization that spans the global market, you need access to sophisticated, easy-to-use business intelligence tools in order to compete in local, regional and global markets. When organizations undertake the […]

Do Citizen Data Scientists Need Special Analytics Tools?

Data Scientists Focus on Strategy, Citizen Data Scientists Deliver Daily! When Gartner talks about expanding data analytics to business users, they also talk about how the analytical tools must be suitable for business users. If a business wants to implement a Citizen Data Scientist initiative […]

NLP and Augmented Analytics: A Recipe for Success!

Augmented Analytics Benefits Include NLP for Easy Analysis! Everyone has heard the term ‘natural language processing’ or NLP. So, what is natural language processing, exactly, and how can it help your business? NLP allows a program or software to understand language as written/spoken by humans […]

What is SSDP and Can it Truly Make Analytics Self-Serve?

SSDP (otherwise known as self-serve data preparation) is the logical evolution of business intelligence analytical tools. With self-serve tools, data discovery and analytics tools are accessible to team members and business users across the enterprise. What is SSDP? SSDP or Self-Serve Data Preparation is a […]

What is Natural Language Processing & How Does it Benefit a Business? (Part 3 of 3 articles)

Whether we know it or not, we use Natural Language Processing every day. It makes it easier for us to interact with computers and software and allows us to perform complex searches and tasks without the help of a programmer, developer or analyst. In this, […]

What are Citizen Analysts and How Can They Improve Your Organization?

The days of data silos and isolated teams of data analysts and IT staff are behind us. Today, every business user must incorporate accurate analysis into the decision-making process. Enter, the Citizen Analyst! What is a Citizen Analyst? Citizen Analysts (AKA Citizen Data Scientists) represent […]

Does Data Democratization Result in Data Anarchy and Bad Business Decisions?

One of the most common excuses used to avoid data democratization and self-serve augmented data discovery is that the organization cannot guarantee data integrity and that, if business users have access to dated, incorrect or incomplete data, the resulting decisions will not be better but […]

Advanced Analytics Tools Can Be Your Secret Weapon!

What is Advanced Analytics, and How Can it Help My Business? What is advanced analytics? Where to start? Advanced analytics takes analysis to the next level by providing sophisticated techniques designed to get to the heart of data and offer insight and answers with which […]