White Paper – Paving the Road to Success: From Spreadsheets to Advanced Analytics
The ‘culture’ of an organization includes habits and processes that are familiar and comfortable. There are many aspects to the success of a culture change within a business organization. When an enterprise decides to move from the silo spreadsheet culture … Continued
White Paper: Self-Serve Data Preparation Provides Significant Benefit to the Enterprise
By providing sophisticated analytical features and algorithms in an easy-to-use self-serve environment, the enterprise enables business users to perform data preparation and test theories and hypotheses and prototype on their own. Rather than preparing data at the central meta-data layer, … Continued
Data Agility and Popularity vs Data Quality in Self-Serve BI and Analytics!
One of the most valuable aspects of self-serve business intelligence is the opportunity it provides for data and analytical sharing among business users within the organization. When business users adopt true self-serve BI tools like Plug n’ Play Predictive Analysis, Smart Data … Continued
Handling Outliers Using Smarten Assisted Predictive Modelling!
1. Outlier, an Outsider! Outliers, also referred to as anomaly, exception, irregularity, deviation, oddity, arise in data analysis when the data records differ dramatically from the other observations. In layman’s terms, an outlier can be interpreted as any value that … Continued
Auto Insights Provide Simple Answers for Business Users!
How Can I Make It Easier For Business Users To Perform Analytics? When a business wants to roll out advanced analytics to its business users, it must consider the average skill level and understanding of analytical techniques and ensure that … Continued
Mobile BI for All Users and All Devices!
Not Just Any BI Tool! You Need Mobile BI for Every Device AND Great Performance! If you are considering a modern business intelligence solution, there is a real necessity to choose an option that provides mobile business intelligence access and … Continued
With Support, Citizen Data Scientists Can Be Successful!
Create an Environment that is Suitable for Citizen Data Scientists! When a business user takes on the new role of Citizen Data Scientist, it is often with misgivings and concerns. If their business and management team have not adequately explained … Continued
Are You Greedy for Customers?
Sometimes it is hard to ignore the distractions that threaten to take you off course and scuttle your business success. One such distraction happens when we give in to temptation and reach for more customers or new customers without regard … Continued
Plan Precisely with Predictive Analytics!
Is Predictive Analytics Real or Does it Promise More Than it Delivers? Why would anyone want or need to use predictive analytics? What good is forecasting anyway? Doesn’t it always end up being wrong? Well, no! That’s why wise businesses … Continued
Give Your Business Users Simple Augmented Analytics!
Business Users Don’t Have to Be Data Scientists (But Basic Knowledge is Great) When you launch an analytics solution within your enterprise, you are probably concerned about getting your business users to adopt that solution. If you can’t engage the … Continued
Smarten Support Portal Updates – February – 2021!
We invite you to explore our latest knowledgebase articles and to join the Smarten user community on Smarten Support Portal. If you have not registered yet, Click Here to obtain your login credentials. Knowledgebase Articles Assisted Predictive … Continued
Plug n’ Play Predictive Analysis For Business User Data Prototyping!
Whether your business is a small, single location brick and mortar enterprise or a large, multi-facility organization that spans the global market, you need access to sophisticated, easy-to-use business intelligence tools in order to compete in local, regional and global … Continued