The document discusses how data analytics can provide business clarity and better decisions through access to current, relevant, and actionable information, highlighting that businesses see a €10.66 return for every €1 spent on analytics and can gain a 67% competitive advantage; it also examines how the evolution of technology over time has made analytics solutions cheaper, more powerful, and easier to use than in the past.

1. Using Data
Analytics
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2. What is it?
Using information to an
organisation’s advantage

3. #1 Resource in Business
“I am a brain, Watson, the rest
of me is a mere appendix”

4. Business Clarity
Current, Relevant, Actionable, Easy to Consume

5. What’s the payback?
Better Decisions
€10.66 for every €1 spent
67% gain competitive advantage

6. Where’s the payback?
Top 3:
Revenues
Gross Margin
Expenses

7. What happens
without
analytics?

8. You are here
Decisions won’t wait
for the new reports queue

9. But we’re busy, the decision is today,
and anyway, I’m useless at Excel…

10. It’s scary in the dark
Running business is hard. It’s
terrifying if you are doing it in the
dark.
We respond instinctively to fear.

12. Let’s get out
of here!

13. Emotional Response #3:
Disengage, and take a guess
Gut Instinct

14. The Case for Analytics
I put it to you..
If you are not using current,
relevant and accurate
information when making
business decisions,
What ARE you using?

15. Analytics provides the means to
assess, understand and drive

16. A quick word on…
Technology Evolution

17. 1997
€18,000
2013
97% Less
€500
Technology becomes cheaper
and better over time

18. 1997
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Computing Power Expensive
Multiple, Expensive Tools
Experts only interfaces
Delivery in months/years
High Capital Expenditure
Complex to own and upgrade
Rigid, Slow to Change
2013
97% Less
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€€€
Near limitless computing power
Seamless On-line Solutions
Interfaces for the Web Era
Delivery takes in days/weeks
Simple monthly subscriptions
No hassle, no upgrades to mange
Flexible to adapt and change

19. Industrial Approach to Analytics
Sector Variants
Our Off-the-Shelf Solutions
In Days
Your Needs
(
Your Data
Tailored Fit
)
Lights On!

20. Self Service that really works
Where do we
make or lose
Money?
Which customers
matter the most?
Have we
the right
product mix?
How well are
we marketing
and selling?
Where are
the new
opportunities?

21. Let’s Take a Quick Look…

22. We just saw…
#1: No Arguing over numbers
#2: Zero hours effort to collate data
#3: True Self Service, for real people
#4: Power to make it ‘Just So’
#5: Pushing as well as pulling information
#6: Provided as a hassle-free service

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24. Want to learn more about
Self-Service Analytics?
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25. Who are
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Experts in Fast, Agile, Powerful business analytics.
We work with only with market changing partners.
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