Most dashboards don’t deliver on their promise to boost productivity, transform processes, and align the business. That’s because traditional dashboards aren’t action-oriented and lack stickiness. It’s time to replace dashboards with smart analytic applications that are role-based, action-oriented, and embedded in the business processes and applications that business users work with every day to make ...

For years, organizations have been collecting, compiling, analyzing, and distributing data with the goal of gaining strategic advantages. But the tried-and-true approach to analytics is no longer enough. Current developments require a new, elevated approach to data that gives users what they need, when and where they need it, in a format that delivers not ...

In our 22-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms with majority cloud-deployment providers (some of whom also offer complete or partial on-premises options), Forrester identified the 10 most significant ones — 1010data, Altair, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Birst, Domo, GoodData, InsightSquared, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report ...