Self-service is easy to promise, but hard to deliver without creating chaos. How do you balance user empowerment with sufficient governance to ensure data consistency and trustworthiness? Self-service is not a tool; it's the culmination of doing everything else right in your data environment, from data architecture and governance to an operating model.
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How to Succeed with Self-Service Analytics: Balancing Empowerment and Governance
March 23, 2020 - This report describes why self-service analytics seems so easy in theory but is challenging in practice, and how to do it right.
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Part I - Self-Service Analytics: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Part II: One Size Does Not Fit All: Customizing Self-Service Analytics For Business Users
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Part III - Self-Service Workflows: Curate, Create, Consume
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Self-Service is the Outcome, Not the Driver of a Data-Driven Organization
Jeff Magnusson: How To Create A Self-Service Data Platform For Data Scientists
In this podcast, Wayne Eckerson and Jeff Magnusson discuss a self-service model for data science work and the role of a data platform in that environment. Magnusson also talks about Flotilla, a new open source API that makes it easy for data scientists to execute tasks on the data platform.
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Operating Models for Data & Analytics: How to Align Resources Across the Enterprise
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A Reference Architecture for Self-Service Analytics
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What Works Series Slides: Data Zones for all Consumers
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Data Architecture as a Service: Empowering the Business to Build Compliant Pipelines
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Making the Most of Your Data Analysts: Strategies to Empower, Align, and Retain Them
November 16, 2022 - Data analysts are pivotal to the success of a data and analytics program. Whether data analysts are centralized or embedded in departments, data leaders need to hire, evaluate, and coach them, empower them with proper tools, and provide a career ladder to keep them active and engaged in the organization.
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Self-Service Triumvirate: The New Data Analyst Workbench
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Analytics Operating Model: How to Manage Requests in a Self-Service Environment
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Angie Davis: Overcoming Report and Data Governance Obstacles
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Making the Most of Your Data Analysts: Strategies to Empower, Align, and Retain Them