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A Race Towards Pervasive Analytics

Analytics on corporate data will also become pervasive. Companies are demanding this. The analytics will be contextual, as this is required for analytics to automatically make sense out of data. The analytics will be agile and companies will be able to pour their data in, and watch the results take shape. Much like Google analytics on web traffic.

Why the need for Intuitive analytics?

Why do business users have ugly, clunky software that is expensive to implement and difficult to use? That is very unfortunate. When the new wave of kids who grew up with iPods and Facebook enter the work force, will they throw out all the clunky enterprise apps? Absolutely!! Replace with pretty, Facebook like apps. Business analytics needs to be that easy to use.

BI is for IT, But Analytics is for the Business User!

Emcien offers pattern-based analytics that easily takes sales data in any form to reveal customer buying patterns and trends. The technology has completely eliminated the need for data models, structures, mapping, etc. Emcien’s pattern based analytics technology was created explicitly to overcome the ‘old heavy weight model of technology’. Pour your sales data in, and watch the customer buying patterns. “Like Google analytics for sales data”, our customers told us.

Part II: Analytics to Action….. The Holy Grail

Converting analytics to actions and recommendations minimizes human interpretation and error on a day-to-day basis. For analytics to be functional in business applications, this is a mandatory requirement in today’s business environment.

Part I: Reporting, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Analytics: Actionable Tasks!

Reporting, Business Intelligence and Data mining cause data overload. We need to provide business users with actionable tasks based on analytics.

The quality connection

Recently I wrote about quality rankings for automotive manufacturers and the perception of these rankings in the market. While the marketing teams at these companies must shoulder the burden to convince consumers about their products’ quality, there is a very real connection between product quality and configuration management.
In many industries where products have grown over [...]