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Elevate Analytics with Generative A) Viewpoints

Posted by ISG Software Research on 16 January 2024

Analyst Viewpoint Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage right now, and generative AI has unlocked new possibilities and made the insights it provides more accessible to more people. Although AI has existed for decades, it has been difficult for organizations to implement. Nonetheless, the value of AI has driven organizations to continue to pursue its use. Now large language models (LLMs)... Read More

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Solve the Right Problem by Tying Analytics to Operational Processes

Posted by ISG Software Research on 28 April 2023

Analyst Viewpoint For decades analytics tools have been focused on solving the wrong problem. They’ve been designed to make it easier for business analysts to do ad hoc analyses on behalf of others, instead of enabling business users to perform their own analysis. There will always be a place for ad hoc analyses, but organizations can better meet their day-to-day analytic needs with more... Read More

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Eliminating Bottlenecks in Analytics

Posted by ISG Software Research on 18 July 2022

Analyst Viewpoint For many organizations, analytics processes are riddled with roadblocks. There are many valid reasons why these roadblocks existed in the past, and they were often based on technical limitations. Even though storage and compute capacity have increased dramatically, many of the approaches that were designed for the constraints of the past are still in place today. It’s time to... Read More

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Changing Data Patterns Are Impacting Analytics

Posted by ISG Software Research on 18 July 2022

Analyst Viewpoint Collectively, we are amid a transition from data at rest to data in motion. Large volumes of data are streaming into organizations from all sides and with increasing frequency, forcing organizations to rethink how they process data. And the changing nature of the frequency with which data informs decisions requires a corresponding change in analytic approaches. The batch... Read More

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Moving from Analytics to Action Requires Planning

Posted by ISG Software Research on 18 July 2022

Analyst Viewpoint Good analytics requires planning and good planning requires analytics. These worlds have largely been kept separate for decades but they shouldn’t be because each activity informs the other. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to conjoin the two; in our recent Value Index assessment of Analytics and Business Intelligence vendors, only one-third of the vendors we evaluated offered... Read More

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Creating a Data-Driven Culture

Posted by ISG Software Research on 18 July 2022

Analyst Viewpoint Organizations today have access to data about nearly everything related to their business. This includes customer preferences, operations on the production line, movement of goods through the supply chain, location of field service personnel and an ever-expanding host of other data from numerous sources. The challenge for any organization is how to ensure it will take advantage... Read More

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Infuse Analytics with AI and Machine Learning

Posted by ISG Software Research on 18 July 2022

Analyst Viewpoint Analytics is expanding beyond merely providing historical insights. For decades, analyses have been largely limited to displaying information about what happened in the past. These analyses offer some insight into why things happened but very little information about what should be done in the future. The viewer of the information was expected to know what to do with the... Read More

Topics: Analytics