insightsoftware 
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
AUGUST 31, 2023
Empower your Finance Team According to a recent Finance Teams Trends Report by insightsoftware and Hanover research, 80% of those surveyed say that their finance department depends too much on IT. If finance needs others to make custom reporting changes – adding columns, adding data sources, etc.
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Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data. The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics.
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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. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings.
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Embedding dashboards, reports and analytics in your application presents unique opportunities and poses unique challenges. We interviewed 16 experts across business intelligence, UI/UX, security and more to find out what it takes to build an application with analytics at its core.
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When your customers come to your app, what do they see: clunky, outdated dashboards or a sleek, modern interface? If your embedded analytics are looking stale, leverage these free graphics libraries to take your embedded analytics offerings above and beyond.
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Which sophisticated analytics capabilities can give your application a competitive edge? In its 2020 Embedded BI Market Study, Dresner Advisory Services continues to identify the importance of embedded analytics in technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
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Dashboard design can mean the difference between users excitedly embracing your product or ignoring it altogether. Great dashboards lead to richer user experiences and significant return on investment (ROI), while poorly designed dashboards distract users, suppress adoption, and can even tarnish your project or brand.
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Every application provider has the same goals: to help their users work more efficiently, and to drive user adoption. But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect.
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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 commonplace. Turning embedded analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways.
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Every data-driven project calls for a review of your data architecture—and that includes embedded analytics. Before you add new dashboards and reports to your application, you need to evaluate your data architecture with analytics in mind.
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As the value of modern in-app analytics becomes clearer, more companies are making analytics a priority before it becomes a problem. The longer you wait to modernize your application’s analytics, the harder you’ll eventually feel the pain of lost customers and missed revenue. If it sounds like a daunting task, that's because it is.
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Embedding analytics in your application doesn’t have to be a one-step undertaking. In fact, rolling out features gradually is beneficial because it allows you to progressively improve your application. You can get new capabilities out the door quickly, test them with customers, and constantly innovate.
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Storytelling is more than just data visualization. Storytelling provides an organized approach for conveying data insights through visuals and narrative. Data-driven storytelling could be used to influence user actions, and ensure they understand what data matters the most.
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Organizational data literacy is regularly addressed, but it’s uncommon for product managers to consider users’ data literacy levels when building products. Product managers need to research and recognize their end users' data literacy when building an application with analytic features.
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Every application provider has the same goals: to help their users work more efficiently, and to drive user adoption. But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect.
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Meeting requirements alone is no longer enough. Today’s users need insightful reporting built on accurate, real-time data. In our eBook, you’ll learn the do’s and don’ts to embedding operational reports, and how to avoid common reporting mistakes.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today's data-driven applications. And they won’t cut it for your end users, your development team, or your business. That's what drove the five companies in this eBook to change their approach to analytics.
Speaker: Logi Analytics
It’s time to turn ideas into solutions. Join us on October 19th & 20th for Logi Spark 2021, the premier event dedicated to helping application teams create engaging state-of-the-art analytics.
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Your application generates vast quantities of data. Left untouched or without the right analytics solution, your data provides little value to you. But, when combined with analytics, it delivers endless insights and opportunities for your end users.
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For 12 years Dresner Advisory Services has run analysis on the importance of business intelligence, and the different providers of embedded BI solutions. BI Defined. Business intelligence is the technological capability to include BI features and functions as an inherent part of another application.
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Your application’s users are as unique as their data needs. So, give your users the flexibility to truly explore data. Self-service analytics are vital for how your users interact and engage with your application.
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As organizations become more data driven, their analytics requirements grow. The expectation to do more with their data becomes a moving target for them and the applications that serve them. To stand up to the challenge, applications must evolve to accommodate their users and ensure their success. But what do users really want?
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According to the 2020 Dresner Embedded Business Intelligence Market Study, embedded business intelligence is crucial for application success. This report explores the current state of BI and why application teams are increasingly choosing an embedded solution.
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Does your analytics solution work with your current tech stack and DevOps practices? If not, any update to the analytics could increase deployment complexity and become difficult to maintain. Learn the 5 elements of a DevOps-friendly embedded analytics solution.
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No one designs bad dashboards and reports on purpose. So why do so many applications have terrible analytics experiences? Download this ebook for secrets to creating dashboards and reports your users will love.
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Selecting the right solution for your embedded analytics is crucial to the success of your application. But with so many solutions and vendors, how do you make this critical selection? Learn about the different approaches to analytics and the pros and cons for each.
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If you built your analytics in house, chances are your basic features are no longer enough for your end users. Is it time to move on to a more robust analytics solution with more advanced capabilities? Follow this free guide for tips on making the build to buy transition.
Speaker: Ryan MacCarrigan, Founding Principal, LeanStudio
Many product teams use charting components and open source code libraries to get dashboards and reporting functionality quickly. But what happens when you have a growing user base and additional feature requests?
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Many teams, as a logical first step, choose to build their own analytics with the help of UI components. But eventually you’ll find that doing it yourself and at scale has hidden costs. Consider these 10 factors when deciding whether you should build analytics features with UI components.
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Assumptions mapping is the process of identifying and testing your riskiest ideas. Watch this webinar with Laura Klein, product manager and author of Build Better Products, to learn how to spot the unconscious assumptions which you’re basing decisions on and guidelines for validating (or invalidating) your ideas.
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The business intelligence market has exploded. And as the number of vendors grows, it gets harder to make sense of it all. Don't go into the fray unarmed. This exhaustive guide with a foreword from BI analyst Jen Underwood dives deep into the BI buying process and explores how to decide what features you need.
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Embedding analytics in software presents some unique opportunities—and poses unique challenges—to software teams. What are best practices when designing the UI and UX of embedded dashboards, reports, and analytics? What should software teams know about implementing security that works with the rest of their products?
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The world’s favorite applications use predictive analytics to guide users—even when they don’t realize it. No wonder predictive analytics is now the #1 feature on product roadmaps. By embedding predictive analytics, you can future-proof your application and give users sophisticated insights.
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Basic dashboards used to be enough to thrill end users. But over time, modern capabilities have emerged—and bare-minimum features are no longer cutting it. How have analytics changed? And where do your BI offerings fall short? Find out sophisticated ways to future-proof your application. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.
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Every time an application team gets caught up in the “build vs buy” debate, it stalls projects and delays time to revenue. There is a third option. Partnering with an analytics development platform gives you the freedom to customize a solution without the risks and long-term costs of building your own.
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The world of data analytics is changing fast as organizations look to gain competitive advantages through the application of timely data.
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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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Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".
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Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.
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Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.
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