Ask any enterprise employee what they need most, and they are likely to say “time.” With limited resources and budgets, your team members are being asked to do more with less and to get it all done on time and on budget. If you take the time to ask a follow-up question, you will likely […]
Yes, Being a Citizen Data Scientist Can Help You Succeed
If your enterprise has nominated you for the role of a citizen data scientist, you must have the right tools and augmented analytics features to help you fulfill your role. Gartner has predicted that “90% of corporate strategies will explicitly mention information as a critical enterprise asset and analytics as an essential competency.” This statement, coupled with […]
Smart Data Visualization Tells a Story Your Users Will Love
The Wharton School of Management reports that only half of an audience is convinced by a purely verbal presentation, but that number jumps to over two-thirds when visuals are added. Why is that? The answer is simple. Our brains grasp and respond to images, colors, and patterns and more quickly assimilate information. Presenting data with colors […]
Predictive Analytics Use Cases for Citizen Data Scientists
Gartner technology analysts predict that organizations leveraging augmented analytics solutions will grow at twice the rate of those that do not use these solutions. Those organizations that provide self-serve augmented analytics to their business users can achieve market goals and stay abreast of the competition with fact-based decision-making and a team that leverages analytics daily to make those […]
What Technologies Should I Include in My Digital Transformation Strategy?
If your enterprise is about to undertake a digital transformation (Dx) project, you should understand that these initiatives require a focus on more than the technology itself. To succeed with a digital transformation strategy, the business must focus on business processes, day-to-day activities and tasks, and the culture within the organization, so that the environment […]
Will My Career Benefit from Becoming a Citizen Data Scientist?
As a team member within a business environment, you may be familiar with the term “citizen data scientist.” This term has been around for some time and was popularized by Gartner, which defines a citizen data scientist as “a person who creates or generates models that leverage predictive or prescriptive analytics, but whose primary job function is outside […]
How Can Natural Language Processing (NLP) Help My Business?
Research reveals that the global natural language processing (NLP) market size is projected to grow by $33 billion within the next five years, an annual growth rate of 25%. The use of natural language processing for search capability is ubiquitous – from the Google-type “ask a question and get an answer” environment consumers love to the augmented […]
Why Embedded BI Is the Best Option for Analytics
When a business considers the implementation of an analytics solution, it may be focused on choosing the easiest, most flexible solution to encourage its users to make analytics part of the process and to incorporate it into everyday tasks to achieve better results. When a business offers embedded BI tools with integration APIs, it provides the […]
Augmented Analytics Tools Can Enable Data Democratization
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 […]
Business Use Cases Create Momentum for Citizen Data Scientists
As businesses plan for data democratization, it is essential to include a strategy to ensure that business users will accept augmented analytics solutions and adapt to the new citizen data scientist role. With business users on board, the enterprise can capitalize on its strategy and optimize return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) […]