Buyers Guide

Embedded Analytics Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by David Menninger on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Embedded Analytics The processes and technology of the analytics and data software industry play an instrumental role in enabling an organization’s business units and IT to optimally utilize data in both tactical and strategic ways. To accomplish this, organizations must provide their workers technology that can access the data, generate and apply insights from analytics,... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Data Orchestration Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Data Orchestration Data orchestration is a concept that has been growing in popularity in the past five years amid the rise of DataOps, which describes more agile approaches to data integration and data management. Data orchestration provides the capabilities to automate and accelerate the flow of data from multiple sources to support operational and analytics initiatives and... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Data Pipelines Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Data Pipelines The development, testing and deployment of data pipelines is essential to generating intelligence from data. Just as a physical pipeline is used to transport water between turbines, generators and transformers in the generation of hydroelectric power, so data pipelines are used to transport data between the stages involved in data processing and analytics to... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Collaborative Analytics Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by David Menninger on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Collaborative Analytics Analytics almost universally involves collaboration among a team of individuals. Interpreting the results of the analyses, choosing a course of action and tracking the implementation of those actions spans multiple roles and departments within an organization. As a result, most of today’s analytics and business intelligence (BI) products support some form... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Mobile Analytics Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Mobile Analytics The processes and technology of the mobile analytics software industry play an instrumental role in enabling an organization’s business units and IT to optimally utilize data in both tactical and strategic ways. To accomplish this, organizations must provide technology that can access the data, generate and apply insights from analytics, communicate the results... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

DataOps Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Data for the Enterprise Data Operations (DataOps) is a methodology focused on the delivery of agile business intelligence (BI) and data science through the automation and orchestration of data integration and processing pipelines, incorporating improved data reliability and integrity via data monitoring and observability. DataOps has been part of the lexicon of the data market... Read More

Topics: Analytics and Data

Data Observability Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 August 2024

Data Observability The need to monitor the pipelines and processes in data-processing and analytics environments has driven the emergence of a new category of software: data observability. Data observability software provides an environment for monitoring the quality and reliability of data used for analytics and governance projects. Inspired by the observability platforms that provide an... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Business Planning Buyers Guide 2023 Executive Summary

Posted by Robert Kugel on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Business Planning The purpose of business planning is not simply to create a plan — it is to make better decisions. Planning and budgeting software should make the process faster, more agile, less burdensome and more intelligent so that managers can make better decisions more consistently. Since the early 2000s, Ventana Research has advocated using a dedicated application to... Read More

Topics: Office of Finance, Business-focused Software and Services

Mobile Analytics Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by David Menninger on 22 August 2024

Executive Summary Mobile Analytics The processes and technology of the mobile analytics software industry play an instrumental role in enabling an organization’s business units and IT to optimally utilize data in both tactical and strategic ways. To accomplish this, organizations must provide technology that can access the data, generate and apply insights from analytics, communicate the results... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Product Experience Management 2023 Buyers Guide

Posted by Mark Smith on 22 August 2024

Product Experience Management Products and services are the foundation of every organization, regardless of its industry or size. In a black-swan event, demand for a product may spike or dip, so in these situations it is of the essence that products get the attention they deserve as they are marketed, sold, serviced and enhanced with innovations. In challenging times, a “customer-first” mentality... Read More

Topics: Marketing, Business-focused Software and Services