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It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools

TechCrunch

Organizations spend ungodly amounts of money — millions of dollars — on business intelligence (BI) tools. Because BI has failed businesses. A gap exists between the functionalities provided by current BI and data discovery tools and what users want and need. Yet, adoption rates are still below 30%.

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Zenlytic develops commerce-specific, self-serve business intelligence tool

TechCrunch

Zenlytic, a business intelligence tool for commerce, secured $5.4 million in seed funding to continue developing its natural-language interface for non-technical users who want to corral their customer acquisition, conversion and retention software into one tool without needing a data team.

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Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools

TechCrunch

Open-source business intelligence company Metabase announced Thursday a $30 million Series B round led by Insight Partners. In addition, the world has moved to the cloud, and BI tools need to move there, too. Existing investors Expa and NEA joined in on the round, which gives the San Francisco-based company a total of $42.5

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Datalogz raises $5M to deal with your business intelligence sprawl

TechCrunch

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of business intelligence tools that aim to help companies make critical business decisions based on data analytics. There’s a catch. “The sprawl that inevitably comes […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Harness Your Product Data: Better Understanding User Behavior Across Channels and Devices

Speaker: Kate Owens and Megan Bubley, SpotHero, Diana Smith, Segment, and Erin Franz, Looker

As a product leader, you are tasked with collecting and synthesizing your customer’s interactions with your product.The great news is that there are many tools used across your company which collect unique parts of your user’s journey. Whoops, did we say great news?

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO

Business intelligence definition Business intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and technologies enterprises use to analyze business information and transform it into actionable insights that inform strategic and tactical business decisions.

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OTA Insight books $80M for its hospitality business intelligence tools, used by 55K hotel properties globally

TechCrunch

Now, OTA Insight — a company that builds business intelligence tools for one of the key sectors in that space, hotels — is announcing a round of funding as it too picks up more business on the upswing. They saw that there had to be a better way of managing that. .

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. We’ll explore essential criteria like scalability, integration ease, and customization tools that can help your business thrive in an increasingly data-driven world.

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What is Data Storytelling? The Value of Context and Narrative

This blog acts as a beginner’s guide to what data storytelling means for your company’s business intelligence and data analytics, explains the importance of leveraging it today, and illustrates how Yellowfin’s own set of storytelling tools can enrich your insight reporting efforts.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities?

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Iterate Your Way to a Top Analytics Product Experience

Speaker: Richard Cheng, Associate Product Manager, Mark43

Tune in to this webinar to hear how Mark43 Product Manager Richard Cheng went about researching, prototyping, and iterating to deliver analytics and business intelligence tools to police departments, emergency call centers, and other public safety agencies, bringing Mark43 users a positive and effective product experience.