Development is taking place in all areas. So, the rules and methods of doing business have changed a lot. Business users must quickly access the data they need. This will allow them to keep up with the dynamically changing business environment and maintain their position in the market.

Some time ago, in order to get insights from data, users had to contact IT departments. Such a process was lengthened by waiting, request processing, clarifications, etc. Such a long process made received information irrelevant. On the other hand, many people didn’t use data in the decision-making process, because they didn’t have special knowledge and skills to work with them. Choosing intuition as the main argument, you can make mistakes, make an inefficient decision. Nowadays, this is an unacceptable luxury for every company.

Now it is important to be a company with the status of information literate and data-driven. Optimize data access with easy-to-use analytics applications. It is also important to introduce a staff training process to improve their information literacy.

Self-Service BI is the ability for business users to independently explore data, draw conclusions, create dashboards and reports without the participation of IT specialists, business analysts and data scientists. Self-service business intelligence involves giving employees access to information, which will help them make informed decisions, regardless of their analytics skills.

Benefits of Self-Service BI:

• Fast acquisition of analytical data (users can access data from any source and at any time);
• Detailed exploration (business users have the freedom to explore the data in any way they want);
• Increasing the level of information literacy (the ability to read, work with data and analyze them);
• Less burden on IT departments (employees save time on refinements and creating reports that are likely to be out of date by the time they are delivered to the target consumer, as well as time for data management, data consistency, application development, etc.).

Recommendations for the successful Self-Service BI implementation:

• Managed access (the ability of users to access the necessary information);
• Data integration (the ability of the analytical platform to combine data from different sources);
• Collaboration (users have the ability to exchange visualizations and analytical tables);
• Applications, dashboards and on-demand reports (create and share analytical applications, dashboards and reports);
• Access anytime and anywhere.

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