White Paper: A Roadmap to ROI and User Adoption of Augmented Analytics and BI Tools
When choosing a BI tool and augmented analytics solution for your business, one of the most crucial concerns is the features and functionality of the prospective solution and how this solution will meet user and organizational needs. It is important … Continued
White Paper: Making the Case for Embedded BI and Analytics
When a business considers business intelligence and augmented analytics initiatives, it should include Embedded BI and Integration APIs to improve ROI, TCO and user adoption. If an enterprise does not understand the risks of data silos, and restrictive analytics solutions, … Continued
Ignore the Doom and Gloom: The Right BI Tool Can Deliver the Goods
There are numerous reasons why a software implementation might fail and the list is too long to cover in this article. But, when it comes to Business Intelligence software, there are some common reasons for failure. Like many other businesses, … Continued
Mobile BI Tools Kick Butt!
Mobile BI Tools Kick Butt! Don’t you just hate it when you need to collaborate with someone, or discuss a problem, and you go to their office and they are out? Maybe they are in the field; maybe they are … Continued
Case Study: Construction, Infrastructure Co. Achieves Integration & High Performance with ElegantJ BI
A Construction and Infrastructure Company in Saudi Arabia engaged ElegantJ BI to help them simplify a complex ERP structure of transaction and operational data including HR, Finance, Accounting, Purchasing, and Subcontracting data. ElegantJ BI provided a short implementation and training … Continued
Don’t Rob Your Users: Give Them Good Old-Fashioned Ad-Hoc Analytics
Today’s business managers and owners are savvy enough to know that self-serve business intelligence is the way to go. Business users need data visualization, monitoring and analysis if they are going to help the organization to achieve the best results … Continued
Commercial Open Source vs. Proprietary Business Intelligence
Open source BI solutions offer some advantages but there is a long way to go to resolve issues that prevent market adoption. Some open source products are free to use, but vendor support is not free. Other open source BI … Continued
Exceptional Growth Predicted for NZ and AU BI Tools Through 2018
IT decision makers, including CIOs in Australia and New Zealand ranked business intelligence and analytics as their top technology priority for 2015 in Gartner’s annual survey of more than 2,800 CIOs. Click here: http://www.elegantjbi.com/
Do YOU Know What KPI Means?
Do YOU Know What KPI Means? Here’s a quick question: What does KPI mean: A) Kinesthetic Program Information, B) Knife Powder Ingate, C) Killer Pie Ingredients or D) Key Performance Indicators? If your answer was anything other than ‘D’, you … Continued
BI Tools for SMEs? Not Just Maybe, But DEFINITELY
Small and medium sized organizations often give up on the idea of business intelligence and corporate performance management, because they believe that the BI tools and solutions are too expensive and complex to implement and that their organizational structure and … Continued
Let’s Talk About BI Data Democracy
When business intelligence vendors talk about democratizing data discovery, they can have very different interpretations about ‘democracy’. If a business intends to provide self-serve BI tools to its employees for daily use and data discovery, it must provide true data … Continued
True Self-Serve BI Treats Employees Like Customers
There has been a lot of talk about data democratization and self-serve business intelligence (BI). There are many reasons why BI vendors and customers are interested in self-serve BI tools. For BI customers, the need to involve all team members … Continued