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In our last installment of the BI Roadblocks series, we explored the effects of SaaS providers becoming the primary source of customer reports. This time, we’ll look at what happens when that pressure is transferred instead to customer companies’ BI analyst teams. ...
Data Talks, Episode 8 Data Talks is Exago's podcast on all-things business intelligence, analytics, and application software. This month, we talk to Christopher Fabri and Exago senior software engineer Richard Mohrmann, both formerly of Merrill Lynch, about bitemporal...
One of the most common impediments to healthy data practice is the IT bottleneck, a workflow dysfunction in which a SaaS provider’s technical staff become overburdened with customer reporting requests. IT bottlenecks typically occur when SaaS vendors fail to provide...
Data Talks, Episode 22 Data Talks is Exago's podcast on business intelligence, analytics, and application software. This month, Anticimex Data Integrity Analyst Forrest Gordon offers insight into training self-service BI users of various abilities and backgrounds. As...
It might be time to consider how much stickiness and utility self-service (ad hoc) BI could bring to your SaaS product, especially if your company is being inundated with customer reporting requests. This year’s market has been especially volatile, and ad hoc...
Meet Forrest Gordon. In 2015, he was working as an exterminator for a mid-sized pest management company. Today, he’s a leading BI Analyst for Anticimex, one of the largest pest control companies in the world, and responsible for training other BI analysts across the...
A data silo is an information repository that is either isolated from stakeholders, other repositories, or both. Though they’re easy to spot and generally known to be problematic, they’re also one of the most common barriers to good data practice. This is in part...
If you’ve ever shopped for software before, you know that after about three product demos, the details start to bleed together. Keeping track of one product’s features is hard enough; keeping track of multiple usually results in your brain abandoning you to whatever notes and/or vague feelings you managed to cultivate over the course of […]
Business intelligence is all about user experience. Don’t believe me? The hundreds of BI applications available today, diverse as they are, share the common objective of replacing this: With something like this: That is, a graphical user...
Embedded analytics and reporting features have become table stakes for software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. More and more software end users expect their SaaS applications not only to house and organize their data, but also to make it available for exploration and...