The SMB Analytics Wire – December 2024
The Hidden Costs of ‘Workaround Reporting’: 6 Signs Your Business Analytics Need a Makeover
It’s New Year’s Resolution time – and chances are you’ve got some items you’d like to fix in the coming year: wobbly stairs, a messy basement, or a bad habit or two. Unfortunately, we often find reasons for not fixing things – referred to as the “avoidance principle”.
This “avoidance principle” applies equally to our professional life as it does our personal one. We see business issues that should be fixed, but we find workarounds instead of fixing them. This is too often the case with business analytics and reporting. Just like wobbly stairs that can result in a tragic fall, not fixing problems with reporting can result in significant harm to your business.
DataSelf Spices up Reporting for TWANG
With roots in Latino and Tex-Mex cultures, TWANG has been adding a dash of fun to food and drinks since 1986. As the original creators of flavored margarita and beer salts, TWANG manufactures and supplies premium salt, sugar, and seasonings nationwide from their headquarters in San Antonio, TX.
When TWANG needed a reporting solution that would not only seamlessly integrate with their ERP system to optimize and accelerate their reporting processes but would also offer advanced technical capabilities for users at all skill levels – they turned to DataSelf.
See how DataSelf drastically improved productivity, and profitability >>
Slice and Dice Sales to see Business Analytics from Every Angle
A Slicer report enables you to look at your data from every possible angle to identify KPIs, outliers, and anomalies. This includes analysis via multiple “measures” – because while one measure (such as sales revenues) might present a rosy picture of sales activities, a different measure – (such as the gross profits from those sales) might indicate a very different reality.
Learn more about the Sales Slicer Dashboard and see it in action >>
Tableau…Salesforce…& Dreamforce: The Future is Bright
With joint messaging from Salesforce and Tableau leadership confirmed that the Tableau solution would continue to be positioned as an enterprise-wide solution that encompasses CRM and related solutions such as ERP, HR, and others.
According to Marc Benioff, Chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce, the appeal of Tableau for BI and AI went far beyond customer-based intelligence.
“Together we can transform the way people understand not only their customers, but their whole world—delivering powerful AI-driven insights across all types of data and use cases for people of every skill level.”
DataSelf 360 Dashboard: Serving Executives Bites of Business Insight
The ‘360’ dashboard is designed to be the one place executives can go to get the proverbial “20,000 foot” view of their business. With consolidated and enterprise-wide visibility, it brings analytics from all data silos together to offer insight into every applicable area of the business. And should a particular analytic need further attention, DataSelf’s functionality offers infinite drill down right from the overview dashboard.
2024 Events, Demos and Webinars
We love getting to meet up with clients and businesses at conferences, webinars and everywhere in between! It is more important than ever that executives and managers have access to clean data and accurate reporting to make better, easier, and faster decisions!
Upcoming Training Class Highlight
DataSelf offers ongoing training classes to ensure you and your staff are getting the most benefit from your BI-based reporting solution. We hold monthly live classes for each training level as well as self-service options for those unable to make the scheduled dates. Our upcoming classes include:
- White Belt (1 Session) – An introduction to viewing DataSelf workbooks in Tableau
- Register for the next class: January 2nd, 2025 – 10 am – 11:30 am Pacific
- Self-Service White Belt Training
- Blue Belt (1 Session) – Using ETL+ and Tableau Desktop for creating and maintaining Tableau Data Sets
- Register for the next session: January 7th, 2025 – 10 am – 11:30 am Pacific
- Self Service Blue Belt Training
- Purple Belt (2 Sessions) – Intermediate level with a deeper dive into calculations, table calculations, sets and more in the Tableau Workbook Application.
- Register for the next group of sessions: January 16th – 17th, 2025 – 12 pm – 1:30 pm Pacific
- Self Service Purple Belt Training
- Tableau Site Administration (1 Session) – Structure of Projects & Groups, Configuring Permissions, Alerts & Subscriptions, Site Status Information
- Register for the next session: January 21st, 2025 – 10 am – 11:30 am Pacific
- Self Service Site Administration Training
- Orange Belt (4 Sessions) – Introduction to designing workbooks in the DataSelf Tableau Workbook Application
- Register for the next group of sessions: January 28th – 31st, 2025 – 10 am -11:30 am Pacific
- Self Service Orange Belt Training
Join the DataSelf Team!
DataSelf is on the lookout for more Data Heroes to add to our team! Are you passionate about accurate, accessible, and consistent data? If so, join us!
DataSelf offers competitive compensation, significant professional growth, a flexible work environment, and a growing team of motivated, collaborative, fun colleagues.
We are looking for the following experts to join our team:
Recordings & Resources
- The Hidden Costs of Workaround Reporting
- DataSelf Spices up Reporting for TWANG
- Slice and Dice Sales to see Business Analytics from Every Angle
- Tableau…Salesforce…& Dreamforce: The Future is Bright
- DataSelf 360 Dashboard: Serving Executives Bites of Business Insight
- 2024 Events – 4th Quarter Update
- Upcoming Training Classes
- Join the DataSelf Team!
