Newsletter - December 15, 2014

Updated: April 28, 2015

CompareBusinessProducts.com
Business Technology Insights
12/15/2014

Dear Friend,

In our technology-based business, everyday, we gather thousands of data points about our customers' behavior, our call center reps performance, our website visitors, our productivity... and of course, we intend to use this intelligence to increase efficiency and profitability.

Our management team has been using a very technical data discovery tool, but we have recently struggled to find an easy way to share the information across the company. What we really need is a simple and cost-efficient way to have business users create reports and propagate information and insights across the company.

We don't have the answer yet: broad business-user accessibility is one of the big BI trends for 2015 and hopefully, new solutions will emerge in the next few months. We'll keep you posted!

 
Elisabeth                 

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