You’ve had your “aha moment.” You’re finally ready to change your organization’s approach to business intelligence (BI)—or take it to the next level—and you’re eager to implement a solution and get your team up and running with their new tools and insights. While there’s no need to dampen your enthusiasm, don’t be hasty. Sit back, slow down, and consider some of the best practices that will ensure you select the right solution for your needs and deliver a stress-free implementation for your employees. In other words, plan for long-term, game-changing success. If you’re in the process of selecting a BI tool for your company, this eBook is for you. We’ll share our take on the key considerations for deploying a modern BI approach across your organization: 1. Computing environment: Adopt a cloud-based BI solution 2. User tools: Empower users with self-service and visualizations 3. Change management: Commit to a BI cultural change 4. Time to value: Realize some quick wins 5. The right choice: Find a solution that fits your needs Read on to find out how cloud-based data analytics and reporting tools can take your company’s decision-making—and growth potential—into the future. Read the entire Whitepaper here: http://mibar.net/whitepapers/5-key-considerations-when-implementing-a-modern-bi/

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5 key considerations when
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Out of the spreadsheet and into the cloud:
5 key considerations when implementing a modern BI
You’ve had your “aha moment.” You’re finally ready to change your
organization’s approach to business intelligence (BI)—or take it to
the next level—and you’re eager to implement a solution and get
your team up and running with their new tools and insights. While
there’s no need to dampen your enthusiasm, don’t be hasty. Sit back,
slow down, and consider some of the best practices that will ensure
you select the right solution for your needs and deliver a stress-free
implementation for your employees. In other words, plan for long-term,
game-changing success.
If you’re in the process of selecting a BI tool for your company, this
eBook is for you. We’ll share our take on the key considerations for
deploying a modern BI approach across your organization:
1. Computing environment: Adopt a cloud-based BI solution
2. User tools: Empower users with self-service and visualizations
3. Change management: Commit to a BI cultural change
4. Time to value: Realize some quick wins
5. The right choice: Find a solution that fits your needs
Read on to find out how cloud-based data analytics and reporting
tools can take your company’s decision-making—and growth
potential—into the future.
Companies
with the most
advanced analytics
capabilities are:
2xas likely to be in
the top quartile of
financial performance
within their industries
5xas likely to make
decisions much
faster than
market peers
3xas likely to execute
decisions as intended
*Bain and Company

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Computing environment:
Adopt a cloud-based BI solution1.
Two inseparable but distinct factors live at the heart of the digital
transformation of BI: the limitations of on-premise legacy technology,
and automation. The manual effort required to make Excel into a BI tool
are at once time-consuming, error-prone, and costly. In addition to cutting
and pasting data from disparate systems into spreadsheets and grappling
with formulas and formatting, Excel users are challenged with incorporating
unstructured data into their analyses and are rarely able to deliver actionable
reports to decision-makers at a moment’s notice. And that’s just for starters.
Cloud computing model drives BI efficiency
With automation, however, everything changes. Today’s cloud-based
BI software eliminates the need for manual intervention and speeds
up the delivery of mission-critical insights, enabling organizations to:
• Connect all their data (even Excel spreadsheets), from on-premise
data sources, big data, streaming data, and other cloud services, so
it can be reported on in a few taps or mouse clicks.
• Give decision-makers 24/7 web and mobile access to data
and software tools, including user-friendly dashboards that provide
a 360-degree view of their business and reports that show detailed
performance metrics.
• Free up their IT team and computing resources from BI reporting and
software maintenance activities, so they can focus on higher-value initiatives.
It’s no wonder that cloud computing is now the preferred computing
model for most technology enablement, according to KPMG’s Journey to
the Cloud: The Creative CIO Agenda report. Nor is it a surprise that Gartner
predicts more than half of global enterprises already using cloud today will
adopt an all-in cloud strategy by 2021.
Top 3 reasons
CIOs are adopting
cloud computing:
55%
*KPMG Journey to the Cloud:
The Creative CIO Agenda
41%
40%
Improveagilityand
responsiveness
Accelerateproduct
developmentand
innovation
Savemoney
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