Making Sense of the Noise: How to Provide Meaningful Business Intelligence

Join Waste Management and Metric insights as they discuss how to provide meaningful BI to your enterprise.

Synopsis:
Many organizations have hundreds or even thousands of reports and dashboards, in multiple BI tools, each overflowing with useful insights, yet only a handful are actively being consumed by their end business users. Even though they have answers readily available to them, BI teams still have a line out the door of people asking questions of their data. But why is this happening?

Challenges being faced by business users:

• Information overload – the sheer volume of reports available are completely overwhelming.
• Disparate sources – content exists in multiple tools and users don’t know where to look or what content even exists.
• Time - Business users think about data for a couple of minutes each day, so there is a need to have answers quickly to inform decision making, navigating so many different dashboards elongates this process.
• Generic approach – Seldom are these dashboards personalized and customized making it a challenge to navigate.

In today’s talk, we will be walking through some key use-cases of how we have been dealing with the challenges of cleaning up their BI mess and making sense of the noise of data dashboards & reports allowing everyone to have the ability to access the information they need right at their fingertips in a user-friendly way.

Key Learnings:

• Learn how you can clean up your BI mess.
• Understand how your complex information can be woven together in a simple way.
• Learn how to adapt your processes from information overload to personalized & insight-driven.
• Have greater clarity on where you sit within your journey of making sense of the noise.

The ability to drive consistent use and widespread adoption of Business Intelligence is an ongoing challenge for many companies, and the inability to achieve this consistency and uniform adoption can significantly impede their progress in becoming information and data-driven organizations.

Departmental siloes, tool proliferation, end-user data literacy, and other challenges too often produce an environment in which a shared, common understanding of the organization’s key performance indicators fail to materialize. In addition, metrics and measurements – the much-discussed “single-source-of-truth” – often fail to take shape, which in turn leads to competing versions of the truth; a lack of trust in available decision-making data; and, degradation in decision-making speed and effectiveness.

In this webinar, we will:
• Explore the underlying conditions that lead to the challenges of driving consistent and company-wide adoption of Business Intelligence
• Examine case studies of companies that have successfully solved these challenges
• Suggest solutions to the issues preventing organizations from building the necessary but elusive "Single Source of Truth"

The whole point of BI and Analytics is to generate business value, but success in this field requires a careful approach. A quality data program will be: Practical, Accurate, Thoughtful, and Holistic. It will be practical in that program managers will be realistic about their goals; accurate in terms of data quality; thoughtful with respect to users; and holistic in its overall approach.

Hear Bloor Group CEO Eric Kavanagh explain why organizations should do a gut check, and figure out how to optimize the value of existing BI and Analytics investments. He will be joined by Marius Moscovici and Mike Smitheman, of Metric Insights, to demonstrate how Metric Insights helps to synthesize highly complex BI and analytics environments. They will discuss why a BI Portal offers a valuable solution for companies that rely heavily on analytics.

Watch as Marius Moscovici, CEO of Metric Insights, and Igor Vasquez, Global Procurement Analytics Lead and Digital Transformation at Mondelēz International, dive into "The Universal BI Portal: The Missing Ingredient to Your BI Strategy".

This webinar will show you how a universal BI portal provides business users with one place to go to get relevant reports and metrics and arrange to support their personal and team-based workflows. Better yet, the portal collects information about BI tool and report usage, providing administrators an administrative console to manage an enterprise BI environment more efficiently and effectively.

This webinar will show you how a universal BI portal can:
• Improve information access for business users
• Improve business users’ trust in data and reports
• Help administrators track usage patterns across multiple BI tools.
• Replace reports with actionable alerts and metric notifications
• Increase the return on investment of BI investments