Good news analytics Shorty – you can put away the Sears catalog…
Hey you. Yes You. You with the small budgets but the big ambitions.
Now You can sit at the table with the adults. You can afford a luxurious business intelligence system.
No doubt you’ve been enviously watching your large company executive peers dine with Cognos, Hyperion and MicroStrategy purveyors for years. You’ve been watching them out-organize and out-analyze your smaller operation for a long time.
Of course, they probably didn’t mention how many people it took to manage the system, how difficult the system was to use for non-analysts, the ongoing expenses…
The good news is that you won’t have to worry about any of that. You can eat like a king without needing to melt down the golden goose.
SaaS analytics providers, like AnalytixOnDemand, have emerged on the scene and they are driving down costs, compressing implementation timelines and extending reporting capabilties to non-analysts.
As a result, for the first time the “hard part” of business intelligence is not about systems, it’s about having the discipline to use the system properly to improve your business. More on that in a separate post(s) in the future..