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    Eckerson Report - Strategies for Driving Adoption and Usage with BI and Analytics

    An exclusive Eckerson survey

    This report is based on a global survey of 214 data & analytics leaders conducted by BARC and Eckerson Group.

    It focuses specifically on the adoption, usage, and value of business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools, and generally on the effectiveness of data & analytics programs.

    Although adoption rates for BI/analytics tools remain stuck in the 20% range, usage is increasing.

    Recent Articles

    Best Alternatives to Exago & Why You Should Consider Migrating

    Exago has become the latest company to join the umbrella of Insight Software, where they will be...

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    The 5 Keys to Picking the Absolute Best BI for Your Snowflake Data

    If you've recently moved your data to the cloud, then you might've picked Snowflake. This cloud-based...

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    Snowflake + Dataviz: Supercharging Your Investment

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    Live Data from Snowflake: 5 Reasons it’s a “must” for your analytics

    The age of slow data has come to an end. Business users are no longer willing to wait days or weeks for...

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    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...

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    Learning CSS in a day? Easy! Build a Pokedex

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    4 KPIs to Expedite Snowflake Optimization

    The past year has seen adoption rates for cloud analytics skyrocket.

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    Data Storytelling vs Data Visualization: Understand the Difference

    Discovering key information is one thing, and communicating it is another entirely. Data Storytelling is...

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    Top Alternatives to Chart.io: Meet Toucan

    The news recently dropped that Chartio will be joining Atlassian! Congrats to both on this successful...

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    The 10 best open data portals - Making data public

    Making public data available to the public: the core principle of open data is fundamental to...

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    Design Analytics Features Instead of Hiring a UI/UX Designer

    So, no matter the industry you’re in, empowering your customers with insights through reporting features...

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    Industrialized Storytelling: Positioning & Use Cases

    Why Data Storytelling Exists

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    5 Data visualization Ideas to Breathe New Energy into NPS Analysis

    A typical NPS survey asks: How likely are you to recommend us to someone else? Choose an answer between...

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    How Much Do Business Intelligence Tools Cost?

    You want to reduce the cost of your business intelligence (BI) tools, but you don’t know where to begin....

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    5 Data Visualization Best practices in 2023

    Dataviz is an art and a way to get actionable insights from your data by visualizing them. It empowers...

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    Good product teams consider building as a last resort

    When buying helps ISV vendors focus on their own product Product Managers must contend with the...

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    Sweat your Legacy BI Platform: Adopt a Best-of-Breed Strategy

    This is precisely what Data Communication is here to do; a new kind of analytics era where the product...

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    BI Fabric: how to rationalize your BI tools while doubling adoption

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    10 Design & Data Storytelling Best Practices for Untrained Users

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    How to rock a kick-off in a data project?

    Let’s be clear, a kick-ass kick-off meeting sets the tone for the project. This is why project managers...

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    How to own Data Preparation to ensure a successful Dashboard Project

    I work as a Delivery Manager at Toucan Toco, and managing dashboard projects is my everyday job. I wrote...

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    6 Business Intelligence Trends To Watch In 2023

    As our third year of COVID-living draws to an end, most organizations, big or small, are navigating...

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    Toucan Created WeaverBird, an open-source visual query builder

    Why we needed a visual query builder Toucan Toco is a web-based data storytelling platform. It allows...

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    Merger and Acquisitions: BI is changing rapidly

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    Back from TDWI Orlando: lessons learned

    Once again, I headed to the TDWI conference, which took place in sunny Orlando last week. I wanted to...

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    Business Intelligence: the secret ingredient for conquering the world?

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    CDO: Data visualization will make your digital transformation a success

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    Marketing studies: transform your restitution with data visualization

    RETHINKING HOW MARKETING STUDIES ARE PRESENTED Competition is particularly strong in the research...

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    How to excel at data visualization and stop making Pie Charts

    What a terrible mistake !!!!!!!!

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    Data visualization, the key to Netflix’s success

    One of the key components to Netflix’s success is the ability to leverage its data to inform...

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