Self-Service Analytics: Six-Steps to Success

Aug 31, 2016 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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Self-service analytics sounds great: the business gets the information it wants, how it wants it, and the IT department offloads custom report development to the business. Unfortunately, this win-win proposition is not so easy to pull off in reality. It requires achieving a fine balance between...

Part IV. How Watermarks Can Transform Your BI Program

Aug 29, 2016 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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A report watermark is the visible evidence of a data governance process that enables organizations to combat spreadmarts and renegade reporting environments without unduly repressing self-service activity. The existence of a watermark can totally transform a Wild West, self-service reporting...

Exceptional EPM Systems are an Exception

Aug 28, 2016 by Gary Cokins in Analytics for EPM/CPM

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Enterprise performance management (EPM) is not a process. It is the integration of six core managerial methods. Few have implemented all six, and those that have had not seamlessly integrated them. Fewer have embedded analytics into each of the methods. What are the six methods and why are they...

Are Analysts Primitive Homo Analyticus?

Aug 27, 2016 by Gary Cokins in Analytics for EPM/CPM

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In the evolutionary ladder once defined by Charles Darwin today’s business analytics professionals will evolve to become essential to support decision makers. They can add value beyond just analyzing data to assisting their organization to gain insights and make better decisions

Why Will Analytics Be the Next Competitive Edge?

Aug 24, 2016 by Gary Cokins in Analytics for EPM/CPM

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Commonly accepted strategies for companies to gain a competitive edge are low cost leadership, product or service differentiation, and segmented customer focus. But today, all three types of strategies are vulnerable to agile competitor actions. Competence with analytics will be an imperative to...