OCTOBER 2018CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM6BI AND ANALYTICS SPECIALCopyright © 2018 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.Volume 03 - 43Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to CIO ApplicationsVisit www.cioapplications.com Graphics & ArtAjay K DasDeclan ColeSalesGeorge Thomasgeorge@cioapplications.com EditorialA Vital Driving Force in Decision MakingJoe PhillipManaging Editoreditor@cioapplications.comJoe PhillipStrategic organizational objectives of the current day and age demand efficient decision-making capabilities, based on the financial forecast made by a company against previously documented business outcomes. To align various business operations in accordance with these organizational objectives, decision makers employ data visualization tools and self-service Business Intelligence (BI) to optimize their short-term and long-term roadmaps effectively. The shift to self-service BI is the most significant change that has taken place in the past few years in the BI and analytics space. Transcending from basic reporting to self-service BI has enhanced user-driven data exploration, analysis, and visualization. As a result, businesses look forward to augmenting multiple BI functionalities--as required by their organizational objectives--that go beyond reporting processes. By leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR), businesses aspire to not only improve the data access but also hope to uncover hidden insights to enhance the quality of analytics to thereby streamline their business forecasts. The adoption of AI has also nurtured the scope for subsidiary technologies such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), which enable decision makers to gain insights and make better decisions based on the natively available data sets.It goes without saying that BI and analytics will become dominant when businesses are able to access multiple data sets on a single data fabric, in turn, visualize the entirety of information available to an organization. Self-service tools are maturing, and the need for best-in-class solutions that can support governance and scalability better than the existing tools will continue to grow. Tapping on to this abundant data pool will invariably drive an organization towards attaining their business objectives. Write us your thoughts!Managing EditorJoe PhillipSenior WritersClara MathewEzra BenjaminRoyce D'SouzaShikhaEditorial StaffBen JacksonDaniel HolmesJune MichaelNaomi DaleVaishali Heggeri*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staffEmailsales@cioapplications.comeditor@cioapplications.commarketing@cioapplications.comContact UsPhone: 510.330.5174Fax: 510.894.8405OCTOBER - 11 - 2018
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