Why enterprises should start modernizing their BI solution?

Savvient Technologies
7 min readDec 22, 2020
Why enterprises should start modernizing their BI solution?

Business intelligence integrates business analysis, data mining, data visualisation, data tools, and automation with data protection, to empower businesses to make more proof actions. Business intelligence (BI) In reality, once you have a visualisation in your business and use this data to improve transparency, avoid inefficiencies, and rapidly respond to evolving markets or supply, you understand that you have modern business intelligence.

Many organizations are weighed down by outdated BI systems and cannot provide their customers with relevant data at the right time to manage their companies. You know that the BI platforms must be modernized so you don’t know what to do with them. Next, let’s discuss what the BI Modernization plan seeks to do.

Below are the goals for every BI modernization plan as per our viewpoint.

Self-Services

Empower businesses and service providers to build their own reports without using IT and super users.

Reduce overall cost

BI product license models and cost of data storage and processing have been substantially reduced compared to legacy BI, leading to a significant decrease in costs.

Speed of change

The most relevant purpose possibly. New systems should be able more easily than legacy platforms to integrate and enable new data sources.

Superior performance

Performance monitoring and data load schedule can be enhanced functionality.

Combine data from multiple sources

In legacy tools, this seems to be difficult to do but is easy with new tools.

Support different data latency requirements

The three criteria for evaluating data latency parameters are real-time, operative, and statistical reports.

The Modern BI Architecture

Most emerging BI tools are furnished with comprehensive APIs that allow IT, teams, to customize tools for their requirements. The tools can use the APIs to create, maintain, and customize the experience and automate tasks for the BI contents.

BI Architecture

Organizations need to develop ‘Services’ to communicate with the APIs via such BI tools. The interaction between business applications and BI tools can be built up and the response from BI tools can be used to evaluate the integrations of the enterprise applications or decision making.

Tools have APIs that can be built-in using Java,.Net, and so on. Tools allow the company to use its own toolsets to fit its IT environment. Business applications may use the support of ‘services’ which carry out the following main activities to communicate with the BI tools via APIs.

  • Set up connectivity with the company app and BI Tools (APIs).
  • Carries out operations such as content creation, update, and deletion.
  • Run the BI data and return the results to the business application.
  • Generates BI content prepared for the business application.

There is a set of APIs for any BI tool. For example, the IBM Cognos APIs are available in Java or .Net.

The APIs can create a report, perform reports, generate a different output format (HTML, excel, pdf), alter a report meta, remove a report when not required,… Services (the architecture based on microservices which be used are configured to carry out the operations referred to above. The services may depend on the specification for business applications.

For example: if a client wants to see the revenue for the current year as his business application reviews the revenue priorities, he will click on a button to read more about the revenue for the current year. This action can be used to call on the service for the execution of a pre-built report or to produce a report on-the-fly depending on the needs of the actual customer.

  • Export the real report to the application to display the report on the application
  • The service will carry only data to display data in the appropriate format in the application.

A further choice offers a layer of abstraction between the app and tool. If the IT tried to move to another system for specific purposes, this could be implemented in the business app with limited effect. This maintains the architecture approach to the product.

If the organization has a lot of reporting requirements, such as functional reporting, dashboards, memory analytics, etc, it will choose suitable tool sites for various kinds of analytical applications. Per tool can be managed using its own APIs and can also be eliminated from the company app.

The business application gives a complete, seamless business interface in the business application from a user’s perspective. Due to its application or the BI tool contents, users cannot feel the difference from experience.

Benefits of modernizing your “Business Intelligence” strategy and toolset

100% governance on the cloud, Using Self-Service BI for your company

The new systems are designed to handle Cloud governance in full, up to help agility. Well, why not implement the same idea to BI companies because you are able to handle the entire infrastructure through thin users. No desktops or notes on the various equipment pieces. Both these capabilities are of effect inside a single platform at your hands with the required protection. Monolithic semantic layers may be converted to the new era model by a fully agile method with “smaller chunks.” And yes, we said that updates inside the platform were automatic.

Modernized analytics tools like Tableau help organizations approach each step in the cycle of analytics-data preparation in Tableau Prep, analysis and discovery in Tableau Desktop, and sharing and governance in Tableau Server or Tableau Online. This means that IT can govern data access while allowing more people to visually explore their data and share their penetrations.

Modernize data management to guarantee high data quality

It may take weeks or in some cases months to make the smallest changes to metadata, reports or dashboards, or other technical changes. Your market users have gone on to explore their BI self-service data more likely than not. The architecture of the framework of the new age is essentially focused on improvement. It is typically integrated into version control systems like Git, offering modifications that are fundamental to the system instead of a long-distance mechanism, which is usually operated by several entities. For the past decade, this adds strength to the BI network from the coders. In every way possible, a welcome change!

Integrate your developers & testers level-up their data skills and to collaborate

Collaboration is a term for a better experience in the enterprise. Teams have made it simpler for technologies like Slack. It is necessary for developers and testers to cooperate and work together (for peer reviews). This can be achieved by creating long, revolving waterfall-like process chains with monolithic BI platforms. Developers rely on the mechanism that can always be missed and each other’s culture can become guilty. The easiest way to prevent this is to work together with BI, as the current platform presents you with The best way to avoid this is to work together. Act together with the people in silos!

Enhance user experience with innovative technologies

In many enterprises, enhancing consumer attention is an instrument. Companies monitoring customers and BI are their users. User advice is also the most successful means of optimizing the advantages obtained by BI.

Implement new tools with intuitive interfaces to ease the consumption and production of content and make other people evaluate data to inform their decisions about related models and patterns. Make sure the contents are simple to grasp and recover and can be consumed anywhere they may be.

A new era of Data visualisations — create & share

That’s what people see after all, and that’s what it says. The simplest of visualisations will complete a plot. Often now, you choose to make your own and use it. Without a sweat: the modern age software is built to give your beloved ‘external’ visualisations the best visualisations inside the platform effortlessly. And it’s dead easy if you want to embed all other visualisations into your CRM or an external portal. And unlike the monolithic BI platforms, the user interface is a pillar of modern age platforms for creating their own tales. We speak of revolutionizing insights, you go there!

Conclusion

BI provides relatively close revenue monitoring capabilities, enables customers to understand more about employee retention, calculating earnings, and more. Various sectors such as banking, insurance, and oil have BI, and every year more enter. BI platforms respond to innovative technologies and their consumers’ creativity. You will go beyond the creation and management of simple reports and dashboards to provide extremely useful data experiences that offer informed business choices and performance through smarter data usage. Setting BI at the heart of your business change would empower you to unleash the real value of your data and become the driving force for the fast-moving, ever more digital world of today.

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