Read more about author Daniel Bernholc. A self-service analytics tool should allow non-technical team members to explore analytical data, even without prior experience with business intelligence tools or knowledge of the underlying data. It should have an intuitive interface, allowing users to explore and visualize data in various ways to gain relevant insights. By no means should it require assistance from members of the data team after the initial set-up.…

Read more about author Katrina Ingram. Asking for consent to collect and use someone’s data as the basis for legitimate processing of that data is key to our data privacy regulations and is also ethical. However, many people agree that consent is broken and that we don’t really have meaningful consent given the power imbalances between big tech organizations and the average user. It’s not always possible to truly understand long…

Read more about author Kartik Patel. What is business intelligence democratization? Put simply, BI democratization is the open access to business intelligence and augmented analytics tools to enable analysis and understanding of the data within the enterprise systems. The “democratization”  component relates to the “who.” Who gets access to the data? The simple answer is: everyone.  In an environment where intelligence and information are democratized, the IT and management team set…

Read more about author Gaurav Belani. Business intelligence (BI) ensures organizations and enterprises make measured decisions. And teams are aware of its importance. However, many analytics teams in businesses struggle with slow, fragmented, or downright counterproductive BI systems. What’s interesting is that these challenges do not emerge due to a lack of sophisticated technologies or adequately trained employees. The main culprit is data accessibility. Data should be immediately accessible to…