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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

Determine your mission, vision, and questions you need to answer around analytics before even starting,” says Brittany Meiklejohn, a business and sales process analyst at Swagelok, a developer of fluid system products and services for the oil, gas, chemical, and clean energy industries. “It That’s a great place to start.”

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Blending Art and Science: Using Data to Forecast and Manage Your Sales Pipeline

Sisense

Nowadays, sales is both science and art. Best practice blends the application of advanced data models with the experience, intuition and knowledge of sales management, to deeply understand the sales pipeline. Why sales and analysts should work together. Why sales and analysts should work together.

Sales 91
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12 Marketing Reports Examples You Can Use For Annual, Monthly, Weekly And Daily Reporting Practice

datapine

Be it in marketing, or in sales, finance or for executives, reports are essential to assess your activity and evaluate the results. Structure your metrics. As with any report you might need to create, structuring and implementing metrics that will tell an interesting and educational data-story is crucial in our digital age.

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The How-To Guide for Cleaning and Preparing Data for Analysis

Juice Analytics

The same metric is broken out into separate columns. We will often see data tables where a metric, like sales, is broken into separate columns by a dimension like month/quarter, geographic region, product, etc. The preferred structure is to have a column that represents that dimension and a single column for the metric.

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Move Beyond Excel, PowerPoint And Static Business Reporting with Powerful Interactive Dashboards

datapine

An interactive dashboard is a data management tool that tracks, analyzes, monitors, and visually displays key business metrics while allowing users to interact with data, enabling them to make well-informed, data-driven, and healthy business decisions. Benefit from amazing interactive dashboards! What Is An Interactive Dashboard?

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How Product Analytics Differs From Embedded Analytics and Why You Need Both

Jet Global

Analytics is vital now because providing end-users with the ability to analyze, slice, and dice data within the context of their application is essential to staying competitive in today’s fast-paced digital world. Imagine your client is using a CRM tool to manage their sales pipeline. What data does it provide?

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Business Intelligence vs. Reporting: Finding Your Bread and Butter

Jet Global

Reports tend to narrowly focus on a specific operation or dataset for a period (monthly sales, daily customer orders, weekly open AP, etc.). However, there are multiple ways and preferences to calculating and analyzing COGs, which subsequently affects everything from summary income statements to sales analysis.