Business Intelligence
01/10/2026
8 min
Freelance data analyst vs a managed analytics service: which fits a company with no data team?
Hiring a freelance data analyst with no data team? Compare it with a managed analytics service: what each covers, who runs it after launch, and when each fits.
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Business Intelligence
01/10/2026
8 min
Business dashboards, built and run for you: how a managed analytics service works
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Business Intelligence
01/10/2026
9 min
Beyond dashboards: what a custom data app actually is
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Business Intelligence
25/09/2026
7 min
What is a managed analytics service?
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Business Intelligence
6 Best Alternatives to Google Data Studio
Google data studio is a free solution that meets the basic needs of a small business. That being said, as soon as salability is brought into the...
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Business Intelligence
What is Customer Value and How You Can Improve It?
Customer value is the perception of what a product or service is worth to a customer versus the possible alternatives. Worth means whether the...
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Business Intelligence
7 Analytics Best Practices that Guarantee Success
Success in analytics goes beyond data collection; it involves data management and insights. Businesses are enthralled by analytics, believing that...
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Business Intelligence
Lifetime Value (LTV): How to Calculate it
Customer lifetime value, often called CLV or LTV, is defined as the monetary value of a customer to a business and is an important metric to...
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Business Intelligence
Average Revenue per User (ARPU): How to Calculate and Optimize it
Average revenue per user (ARPU) reflects the amount of revenue a company generates per its active users. Typically, companies calculate ARPU on a...
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Business Intelligence
Net Revenue: How it Differs from Gross Revenue and Net Income
TL;DR: Revenue Metrics Explained Gross Revenue → Total money from sales before any deductions (the "top line") Net Revenue → Gross revenue minus...
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Burn Rate: Why it is Important and How to Calculate it
In simple terms, burn rate measures how much capital your business needs to cover all expenses in a certain period of time, usually a month....
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Business Intelligence
Marginal Profit - Everything You Need to Know
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Business Intelligence
8 Essential SaaS Sales Metrics You Should be Tracking
One of the wonderful things about the Software as a Service (SaaS) model is that it’s easier than ever before to not only start a business, but to...
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Business Intelligence
AARRR Pirate Metrics: Everything You Need to Know
We love Pirate Metrics. The name itself is fun: AARRR!! Pirate metrics, or “AARRR”, is a term coined by entrepreneur and investor Dave McClure....
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Business Intelligence
9 Simple Steps for HR Digital Transformation
The goal of HR digital transformation is to transform operational HR processes into data-driven, automated systems. On the one hand, HR teams are...
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Business Intelligence
What is Workforce Analytics and How it Impacts Workforce Management?
The use of data-driven methods for workforce planning and management is known as workforce analytics. Workforce behavior and related factors are...
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Business Intelligence
Perform powerful transformations with your YouPrep
For years, data preparation was the missing link of business analytics.
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Business Intelligence
How to Manage Sales Opportunities Efficiently
Before we dive into sales opportunity management, let’s start by thinking about the business’s approach to sales opportunities. How many of these...
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Business Intelligence
What is Toucan 2.0? Introducing the new and improved Toucan
If you’ve already used Toucan, you’ve probably come to know (and love) the Toucan data storytelling experience. For over six years, we’ve been...
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Business Intelligence
5 Best alternatives to Chartio
Chartio has been acquired by Atlassian, which means it is decision time for their customers. Atlassian has decided to close down operations, giving...
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5 Best Alternatives to Domo
Domo is a good technical analytics solution, which is oftentimes known to over promise and under deliver. The biggest downfall for Domo comes in the...
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Business Intelligence
5 Best Alternatives to Qlik
Qlik Sense is the newer, more dynamic version of Qlik View. It is marketed as a modern self-service analytics platform, that drives data discovery...
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Business Intelligence
5 Best Alternatives to Klipfolio
Klipfolio is marketed as a modern, lightweight BI solution that allows users to make better and confident decisions. Though it is modern, Klipfolio...
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Business Intelligence
Is Cloud Business Intelligence right for you?
Where do you stand with Business Intelligence? If you’re like most companies, BI has been a priority of yours for some time now, but you’re unable to...
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Business Intelligence
4 Real World Business Intelligence (BI) Examples
Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analyzing data. It is used to measure performance progress toward business goals,...
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Business Intelligence
5 challenges of a sales director + how analytics can help
As a sales person, you’ve got a knack for negotiating, building strong relationships with leads, and sealing deals.
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Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence vs Business Analytics: How Are They Different?
Data is in abundance. Businesses create tons of data from multiple sources every single day. To use this data to make smarter decisions, identify...
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Mobile Business Intelligence: The answer to widespread adoption
The pace of business has changed. Decisions have to be made faster and more accurately. The only devices always by your side that can keep pace with...
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Destroying Data Complexities: Toucan vs Other Analytics Solutions
It is a known fact that data complexities is killing your business by making decisions slower and less reliable while driving up the cost and...
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3 reasons why data analytics are increasingly hosted on the cloud
By the end of 2022, more than half of all enterprise data will be hosted on the cloud. With more data being moved to the cloud, data analytics...
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Data Friction - what is it and how to find it
$274 billion.
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Business Intelligence
Is it a Feature or is it Friction? Looker Edition
In this edition of friction or feature, we will be looking at Looker. If you have browsed around for analytics solutions, chances are that you have...
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Business Intelligence
Checklist: Data Product Readiness
Building customer-facing analytics for your application is about more than just the technology you select. in fact, it’s almost never the technology...
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Business Intelligence
Software vendors: top 5 reasons to switch to SaaS
2021 has brought important changes to our working habits, accelerating the cloud revolution. The rise of remote work led companies to rethink their...
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