For this post, I’ll once again show you a chart that you may or may not be familiar with, as it’s not one of the most common. But, if you know how to use it, you may consider removing all the gauge charts you have in your dashboard. Therefore, let’s talk about the bullet chart.
Do more with your dashboards. If, like me, you are someone who uses data to make decisions (what we call a business user), I suspect your experience with analytics and in particular dashboards is mixed verging on the ‘not that great’.
Well, let’s be specific here. Birds migrate either north or south. Data warehouses are only going in one direction. Up, to the cloud. It’s a common trend we’re seeing across every vertical and across every region. Companies are moving their existing data warehouses to cloud environments like Amazon Redshift. And more often than not –unlike their feather counterparts– once they migrate to the cloud, they never come back. But why? Simply put, it just makes sense.
With our last release of the year, we are happy to deliver several product enhancements that will set the stage for a successful new year ahead and close out on a host of exciting enhancements throughout 2019. The Qlik Sense November 2019 release introduces expanded cloud connectivity, SOC 2 Type 2 certification, new visualization capabilities, mobile offline support for Android, reporting improvements and more.
The next Yellowfin release is absolutely huge. We’ve focused on the experience of data consumers within organizations with three new features - code mode for dashboards, Present and our new mobile app.
Data professionals face an efficiency gap; they spend too much time to get access to the data they need and then put it into the appropriate business context. The capacity of delivering trusted data to business experts at the point of need is critical if you want to liberate data value within your company.
It’s no secret that the cloud data warehouse space is exploding. Driven by the need for on-demand, performant data warehousing solutions, businesses are turning to public cloud providers to modernize their analytics infrastructure and help them make better business decisions. Among the leading data warehouse options from the public cloud providers is Amazon Redshift. Redshift offers a petabyte-scale, fully managed data warehouse service in the cloud.
As a Microsoft partner, we’re excited by the announcement of the Azure Synapse Analytics platform. Why? Because it furthers the ability of businesses to leverage data-driven insights and decision making at all levels in an organization. (And we love that!) Together, our joint customers are already leveraging data in amazing ways to tackle everything from creating customer 360 views to reducing project times for data analytics from 6 months to 6 weeks.
While the impetus for transforming to a data-driven culture needs to come from the top of the organisation, all levels of the business should participate in learning new data skills. Assuring data availability and integrity must be a team sport in modern data-centric businesses, rather than being the responsibility of one individual or department. Everyone must buy in and be held accountable throughout the process.
