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August 23, 2006
Best implementation of Spotfire?
Many times I get asked "who has the best implementation of Spotfire?" Obviously not a trivial question to answer, but I'd like to point to Toshiba who really has done an outstanding job. I heard a comment from one of our friends at Toshiba say "Spotfire is like air, we can't live without it". Their case study is a good read:
http://www.spotfire.com/spotfire_downloads/case_studies/toshiba.pdf?CFID=1663071&CFTOKEN=89929576
Now, what have they done right when it comes to analytics when so many other companies struggle with efficiently arming broad ranges of people with analytics? I think the trick is as simple as this: they take it seriously and has been willing to build a plan and apply human resources, not just software, to make it successful. If you want to create competitive advantage (in their case beating the other memory suppliers for example) you have to create a plan and execute on it. Many companies, Spotfire customers or not, forget that you have to be strategic about analytics to really create an impact.
If you are serious about analytics you can really set yourself up to crush your competition. If you're not you'll end up arming the statistics priesthood with lots of numbers, but little outcome.
Posted by Christopher Ahlberg at August 23, 2006 9:45 PM
