May 15, 2012
Business Intelligence and user adoption: A Depp-esc disaster?
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Industry analyst firm, Aberdeen Group, have reiterated a familiar yet unattained mantra, echoing our long held view, indeed Yellowfin’s founding principle, that BI has a far wider (and continuously mis-catered-for audience) – that BI Return on Investment (ROI) is best attained by empowering decision-makers to act.
The inherent, and in many cases prevailing, cost and complexity of more traditional BI tools place corporate data in a virtual prison – unable to escape and bare itself to the outside world; controlled by a minute usership of data analysts. This community is often disconnected from business demands, and rarely capable of transmitting the value of data analysis to the breadth of relevant business decision-makers in a timely manner. Data should not be mined with a gatekeeper mentality.
“Self-service BI” – I’ve always disliked the expression as it conjures dreary images of petrol station queues and stickily malfeasant slurpee machines – allows BI to find a far greater number of benefactors. And in doing so, improves the ability of an organization to utilize its data quickly and accurately to support better, faster decision-making. How so? Because if more people have access to the facts, well; more people know what’s going on, and thus, form a better understanding of the appropriate actions and reactions.
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May 14, 2012
Health, insurance and retail industries turn to Mobile BI
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According to Gartner’s official 2012 predications report, Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) will be the most disruptive development to affect the analytics industry in the coming year. Consequently, some industries are rushing to attain and apply the benefits of Mobile BI, while many are simultaneously struggling with the strains of the overarching trend towards enterprise mobility and another inextricably linked inclination – the consumerization of IT.
According to the Business Application Research Center’s (BARC) The BI Survey 10 – you can fill in The BI Survey 11 to outline your BI expectations and experience using Yellowfin – around 60 percent of organizations a likely to possess some form of mobile reporting and analytics within the next two years. Independent telecom industry research organization, Heavy Reading, suggests that 58 percent will have Mobile BI in place by the end this year. Dresner Advisory Services latest Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study revealed that 68 percent of businesses view Mobile BI as “critically” or “very” important – up from just 16 percent in 2010.
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May 13, 2012
Mobile BI Best Practices: Webinar recording and slides
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What’s in it?
This joint Yellowfin and Actian Vectorwise Mobile BI Best Practices Webinar discusses:
* The forces driving the rise in enterprise mobility and growing uptake of Mobile BI
* The top 10 non-negotiable Mobile BI best practices for a successful mobile reporting and analytics deployment
* How Yellowfin and Actian Vectorwise are making Mobile BI faster and easier
Posted by Justin Hewitt at 9:15 AM | Comments (0)
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