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Self-Serve Data Preparation and Augmented Data Prep Go Hand in Hand! I was talking to a friend the other day and she shared with me her experience at a recent business intelligence conference. She was a bit confused by some of the terminology and we spent a few minutes parsing the terms and talking about the concept of self-serve data preparation. She was confused by the fact that self-serve data prep and augmented data preparation are often mentioned in the same discussion. “If something is self-serve,” she said. “How can it be augmented? Self-serve seems to me to mean that a person can do it alone without assistance.” She considers ‘augmenting’ to be assisting. Well, in some ways she is correct. But, let me tell you what I told her. Augmented Data Preparation  is designed to provide guidance, recommendations and auto-suggestions so that a user can work alone to get sophisticated results in a simple, intuitive, self-serve environment. Self-Serve Data Preparation ...

Social BI Guides Administrators by Highlighting the Type of Content Users Want! Social networks and social media affect the lives of consumers and business users alike. Everyone knows them, and everyone uses them. Every aspect of modern life involves sharing and social interaction, Imagine an environment where business users can access a business intelligence and analysis portal and see popular data to rate, share and comment. This type of sharing can optimize resources by allowing users to access reports, dashboards and data that might be just what they need to complete a task or analysis. When you implement social media and social networking within the Business Intelligence environment business users can share, rate, discuss and learn from others. With  Social BI , organizations will see the emergence of power users who take a creative, insightful approach to data analysis. Just as social media users can ‘Like’ or ‘Share’ a provocative post from another user, a socia...

Self-Serve Data Preparation Takes the Headache Out of Data Analytics! Self-Serve Data Preparation (aka augmented data preparation) is all about efficiency and the presentation of sophisticated data preparation tools in an easy-to-use environment. The idea behind self-service data preparation is to give the average business user the ability to prepare, use, report on and share data without the assistance of IT staff or analysts, thereby making their jobs easier and making every team member more of an asset to the organization. Business users love  Self-Serve Data Preparation  because they can control data elements, and the volume and timing, perform data preparation and test theories and hypotheses by prototyping on their own. No one likes to be restricted to complex tools or forced to wait for programmers or data scientists. Give your business users access to crucial data and connect them to data sources so they can mash up and integrate data in a single, one-st...

Self-Serve Data Preparation Takes the Headache Out of Data Analytics! Self-Serve Data Preparation (aka augmented data preparation) is all about efficiency and the presentation of sophisticated data preparation tools in an easy-to-use environment. The idea behind self-service data preparation is to give the average business user the ability to prepare, use, report on and share data without the assistance of IT staff or analysts, thereby making their jobs easier and making every team member more of an asset to the organization. Business users love  Self-Serve Data Preparation  because they can control data elements, and the volume and timing, perform data preparation and test theories and hypotheses by prototyping on their own. No one likes to be restricted to complex tools or forced to wait for programmers or data scientists. Give your business users access to crucial data and connect them to data sources so they can mash up and integrate data in a single, one-st...

Can Business Intelligence for CRM Help Attract and Retain Customers? Customer service and customer satisfaction are the backbone of customer relationships. In an effort to ensure customer satisfaction and retention, businesses spend a lot of time trying to understand buying behavior, customer expectations for product support, website support and product and service variety, as well as gaps in product and service offerings. If an organization can accurately monitor and measure customer service factors and customer satisfaction, it is easier to resolve issues and capitalize on opportunities and to anticipate customer needs and fill market gaps. The goal is always to attract new customers, retain existing customers and obtain those all important client references. Business Intelligence for CRM  is crucial to business success. Your competitors have already embraced metrics and KPI for customer relationship management to provide objective metrics and understand what tasks an...

Need Analytics for Business Users AND Data Scientists? No Problem! Does your business intelligence solution provide true advanced analytics capabilities? Can your BI tool satisfy the needs of business users, data scientists and IT staff? That may seem like a tall order but with the right business intelligence software, you can provide predictive analytics for business users, including assisted predictive modeling that walks users through the analytical process and allows them to achieve the best results without a sophisticated knowledge of data analytical techniques. You can transform those business users into Citizen Data Scientists! Plug n’ play predictive and forecasting tools help businesses to create Citizen Data Scientists by enabling the average business user to leverage sophisticated predictive algorithms without the expertise and skill of a trained data scientist, so users who are not statisticians or predictive algorithm experts, can leverage Self-Service Plug n’ Pl...

Does Your BI Tool Easily Connect to ERP and Other Crucial Software? Today’s business enterprise does not want to settle. If you plan to implement or upgrade your business intelligence solution, you would understandably expect to be able to use the other solutions your business users depend upon. Best-of-breed or enterprise solutions like Tally® for accounting and financial management, or SAP or Navision for enterprise-wide management are just such examples of software and solutions you would want to integrate and include in business intelligence and advanced analytics. So, if you are in the market for a new or upgraded BI tool, you definitely need to consider the cost and time required to implement and, equally importantly, to connect and integrate data from other crucial applications and solutions so that you can easily access, use and analyze data within the  Business Intelligence Tool . Your business intelligence and augmented analytics solution should take a comprehen...