Traditional BI vs. self-service BI shouldn’t be a choice
Traditional vs. self-service business intelligence doesn’t have to be an either-or choice. Both bring different tools and benefits to organizations.
Many organizations are leaving value on the table by solving problems through conventional methods, which can take months or years to resolve. Business intelligence helps companies extract actionable insights from their data much quicker — and the market is booming.
But to really make these data-driven insights impact a company’s bottom line, they need to be in the hands of employees who can make use of them. Only 13% of senior decision-makers use analytics on a daily basis, but the trend is moving toward making more use of data, according to a survey released by IDC and Sisense in 2021.
Apps Associates own subject matter expert, Myles Gilsenan is quoted in this article.
Tips for self-service BI success
Successful self-serve BI starts with good, well-organized data. That takes knowledge of the data itself, data modeling work and presentational layer work, said Myles Gilsenan, vice president of data, analytics and AI at Apps Associates, a technology consulting firm.
“Just connecting a BI tool to a bunch of data sources with no modeling work is often a recipe for disaster,” he said.
Then, the data needs to be modeled and presented to users in a way they can understand and not get themselves in trouble, Gilsenan said. To prevent situations where there are multiple versions of the truth presented to different employees, guardrails and distribution protocols should be established.
Then, the data needs to be modeled and presented to users in a way they can understand and not get themselves in trouble, Gilsenan said. To prevent situations where there are multiple versions of the truth presented to different employees, guardrails and distribution protocols should be established.
The final piece is keeping the data safe. Preventing unauthorized access requires tightly designed data security.
Read the full article here.
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