{"id":31380,"date":"2019-03-06T02:29:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T07:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=31380"},"modified":"2019-03-06T02:29:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T07:29:27","slug":"bi-apps-help-you-paint-a-picture-worth-a-thousand-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/06\/bi-apps-help-you-paint-a-picture-worth-a-thousand-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"BI apps help you paint a picture worth a thousand numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<strong>GLENN REES<\/strong> &#8211; Today\u2019s businesses have access to more data than ever, yet much of that information isn\u2019t being put to good use. On average, between 60 per cent and 73 per cent of data in an enterprise goes unused for analytics,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/go.forrester.com\/blogs\/hadoop-is-datas-darling-for-a-reason\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to research firm Forrester<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberconservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Zoho-analytics-dashboard.jpg?resize=362%2C207\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31381\" width=\"362\" height=\"207\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, most organisations are missing many potential insights into their business, customers and markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be fair, the increasing volume of available data has resulted in greater complexity, adding to the difficulty for businesses to manage, process and interpret all that information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is why <strong>business intelligence<\/strong> (<strong>BI<\/strong>) applications are becoming more popular; they extensively use graphics, or visualisations. These allow executives and other decision-makers to more easily identify complex data trends and insights, and act on them. In fact, several <strong>BI<\/strong> applications are designed to be self-service, so you don\u2019t have to be a data scientist to use them.  R<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read more: (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/www.intheblack.com\/articles\/2019\/03\/01\/bi-apps-for-data-visualisation&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYACoTNDQxMDk2MjQ0OTUwNzgzODY3MzIaMzFiNWZiZjcxOGQyZWZhYzpjb206ZW46VVM&amp;usg=AFQjCNG-QnOKYjHcaOZmf4SqJZ08e0eqwg\" target=\"_blank\">ead more:<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0GLENN REES &#8211; Today\u2019s businesses have access to more data than ever, yet much of that information isn\u2019t being put to good use. On average, between 60 per cent and 73 per cent of data in an enterprise goes unused <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/06\/bi-apps-help-you-paint-a-picture-worth-a-thousand-numbers\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,71,644],"tags":[173,645],"class_list":["post-31380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bi","category-business-intelligence","category-power-bi","tag-business-intelligence","tag-power-bi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33199,"url":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/04\/the-trends-solutions-and-future-of-bi\/","url_meta":{"origin":31380,"position":0},"title":"The trends, solutions and future of BI","author":"Rick Backus","date":"March 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"By Barry Burdis - In a world where customer-centricity is considered vital to continued business success, effectively utilising and understanding the vast quantities of information available to an organisation is critical to making the right, customer-focused decisions and staying ahead of the competition. 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