The Cure for Data Dysfunction

Identifying the Problem

At many companies, the approach to business intelligence and analytics is inefficient and unscalable. Worse, most people don’t recognize that this is a problem. Even fewer realize that there’s a simple solution.

Check Your Symptoms

Mark which of these statements apply to you and your organization:

Processes

You have more analytics requests than you can possibly keep up with.
Other ad hoc reporting requests aren’t even submitted, because they’ll never get prioritized in time.
The business units know the way to expedite their requests (and it usually includes name-dropping one of their executives).
This “fast pass” option is getting used more frequently.
After completing the initial request, you often get a follow-up request for more analytics. This effort is like starting from scratch and may keep you working late to complete.
Your team is routinely asked to provide the same types of reports, just with updated data.

Tools

You already have more than one BI tool, obtained when you or your predecessors tried to fix this problem previously.
These data analytics tools are not getting used. Or at least not to the degree that was envisioned when purchased.
Your data is expected to grow significantly in the next few years, and you don’t have a practical solution for how to manage this.

People

Even though your analytics team has grown in the past few years, the time it takes to fulfill data requests hasn’t improved.
Your team has a tense relationship with the business teams whose reports you provide.
You hired data scientists and advanced analytics experts who are stuck answering basic questions like “what were sales by month for product X?”.
Members of your team tell you they’re feeling burned out or bored by their work.
Some team members talk about leaving or have already left.

Total symptoms identified:
0-2

Congratulations! You’re likely not suffering from data dysfunction. Your team is productive and your business stakeholders are happy. You probably already have a data structure and analytics tool that are delivering valuable insights.

Total symptoms identified:
3-4

Your company is at risk for data dysfunction. In fact, data dysfunction may already exist. Take the symptoms checklist to your team and business partners. They may help you identify a latent case of data dysfunction within your organization. If that’s the case, we can offer treatment.

Total symptoms identified:
5 or more

Your company has data dysfunction. But don't despair - we have a cure that will alleviate process bottlenecks and provide robust analytics faster.

Begin Treatment Now

AnswerRocket provides self-service analytics that is easy to use and powerful. Business users can compile their own reports and dashboards by simply asking natural language questions. What takes days using traditional BI solutions can display within seconds using AnswerRocket.

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“We quickly developed habits of looking at things more often and  from more angles. AnswerRocket’s speed and easy access to data was a game changer.”Adam Levy, President of SnapAV

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