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Blog: Charting the Course: How to Choose the Perfect Visualization for your Data in Five Steps
When done right, data visualizations tell a story. Data visualizations have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There might even be characters, like a hero or a villain! But to tell a great story, you need to set the perfect scene. And setting the perfect scene with data starts with choosing the best visualization for your…
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Blog: How to create powerful data visualizations
Viewing data as a wall of rows and columns can be a formidable barrier to understanding. As we work with more business information daily, in sky-rocketing volumes, it’s essential that everyone – from experienced developers to data visualization novices – are confident working with data and extracting value from data, fast.…
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Blog: Smarter analytics with a two-way data flow
Every department, from HR to IT, Accounting, and Sales needs to get the most from their resources to drive revenue. The solution lies in optimizing business operations. With a modern, integrated analytics solution, your team will have access to fresh insights, a single source of truth, and the tools to work smarter. Why…
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Blog: Mythbusting: Three Misconceptions about Embedded Analytics
Choosing an embedded analytics solution is an important decision, and there are a few key areas of understanding that can make or break a team’s choice of technology. It can be difficult to determine what sets one solution apart from the rest, but when it comes to how you and your team work and make critical business…
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Blog: How Embedded Analytics Reduces Cognitive Tax and Improves Productivity
Cognitive tax is a term used to describe the intellectual hardship faced by an individual when they’re completing a task. Intellectual hardship can take many forms: distractions, lack of access to necessary resources, unclear or confusing directions, or unnecessarily difficult processes, to name a few. In the world of…
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Blog: Cloud BI: Shortening the distance from insight to action with Live Query
Clunky, old analytics infrastructure no longer addresses modern business needs. With data moving to the cloud, many forward-thinking data leaders have already begun adopting cloud analytics models for their businesses. Snowflake, a leading cloud-computing provider, speaks to how people work with data today: “Unify,…
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Blog: What a no-code Data Analytics platform means for your business
According to the Harvard Business Review, the advent of no-code, low-code platforms has far-reaching implications: “Where it used to require a team of engineers to build a piece of software, now users with a web browser and an idea have the power to bring that idea to life themselves.” As a progressive data leader, these…
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Blog: Astrato Writeback: From read-only dashboards to two-way data apps
To keep up with rapid changes in the global marketplace, businesses need to speed up their digital transformation journey. One of the essential components in making your data work for you is creating two-way data stories with writeback – enabling you to speed up the time to insights and smarter decisions. The death of…
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Blog: Embedded Analytics: what it is, and why it matters
In order to understand embedded analytics and why it matters for the way we work, it’s helpful to start with an understanding of what it means to work without it. Said simply: Working without embedded analytics means doing less, while working more. Market researchers estimate that an individual employee can spend…
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Blog: Introducing Astrato Galaxy – Our online community
Emily Cline, a Senior Solutions Architect at Astrato, shares why she’s passionate about the inspiring Astrato Galaxy community! With so many networks and communities out there, it can be overwhelming to sift through and find where you fit in. None of us need another notification popping up on our phones which we then…
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Blog: 5 tips for progressive data leadership
In today’s modern data world, data leaders need to move beyond a sound understanding of strategic capabilities and opportunities. Being open to innovation and taking new ideas on board is also essential. According to Gartner’s report, Leadership Vision for 2022: Top 3 Strategic Priorities for Data and Analytics Leaders,…
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Blog: Astrato Embeds: Smarter decisions with Embedded Analytics
Our Head of Product Marketing, Al Herron, shares his excitement about our new Astrato Embeds capability! In my last blog on 6 things your BI shouldn’t do, I shared some of the highlights of working at the next tech unicorn – innovating and working with some of the best minds in the business in the bustling heart of…
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Blog: The changing roles of the modern Data Team
Data innovation is happening now – in the cloud. For businesses, that should mean a faster time to insights for everyone. As a data leader, it’s important to invest in building modern data teams. But they will need the right skills and role structures to work with data differently. Think about what talent you already have…
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Blog: Current vs Modern BI
The data world is changing and maturing. Is your Business Intelligence solution still fit for purpose? With technological advances in the infrastructure, it should be easier to get more value from your data, right? Matt Turck shares his view in his analysis of the current Machine Learning, AI and Data Landscape: “Today,…
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Blog: Welcome new joiner, Francesco Puppini
Shifting to cloud-first analytics is the next step in the evolution of BI. At Astrato, we want to provide data teams with a modern BI and analytics platform that unlocks all the agility and scalability of the cloud. And we need the right technical expertise on board to continually drive innovation. That’s why we’re excited…
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Blog: A Refreshing Change? 6 Things Your BI Shouldn’t Do
Our Head of Product Marketing, Al Herron, shares his thoughts on BI, analytics and change. Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster – that is a quote by Elon Musk. Over the last few months Elon’s words have made an impact. Why? Read on and see… … Continued The post A…
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Blog: 5 key learning switching from development to product management
One of our Astrato Product Managers, Martin Kierkegaard, shares his thoughts on switching careers in software. Have you ever been asked the question “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”. It’s one of those classic interview questions, and one you often don’t have an actual answer to. I’ve asked myself the same question…
