Maximizing The Dimensions Of Scalability To Grow Business Intelligence

Business intelligence is best served when it is accessible to the broadest groups of people within your organization. Too many organizations have inadvertently developed a culture of “elite” analysts entitled to access this holy grail as if the untrained are incapable of envisioning new ways of viewing and experimenting with data. This is not to say there’s no need for a qualified cadre of data analysts capable of performing deep and complex dives. But the idea of compartmentalizing people into authorized and unauthorized data users limits the potential of your enterprise.

Instead, you should elevate the role of your data analysts so they can serve as data experts and mentors to the rest of your organization. This simplifies data analytics and empowers all users to learn how to leverage business intelligence to increase their productivity, value and satisfaction.

With this expanded notion of employing business intelligence more widely across your organization, the need for scalability also expands in new directions. This does not pose a problem for the informed executive who, once aware of the varying scalability demands, can ensure the appropriate tools and resources are in place to support the demand and pave the way for expanding the power and profitability of business intelligence.

System Scalability 

This is the scalability demand with which every executive is already familiar because every system must be able to flex with the needs of the organization.

Adoption Scalability

This refers to the strategy put into place to introduce business intelligence as the new standard for working, and it involves employing training and improving usability. As accessibility to business intelligence tools expands to more users, there is an equal need to simplify the user interface. This anticipates and answers the tendency for novice users to avoid or resist the learning curve because it’s “too hard to learn.

Data Scalability 

While big data remains an important aspect of all business intelligence, don’t overlook small data. Scalability should also address and manage the varied forms of data, like cloud data, text documents, images and videos, spreadsheets and email archives.

Analytic Scalability 

Finally, perhaps the most overlooked yet most important of all facets of scalability is analytic scalability. Simply put, you have large pictures, small pictures and all kinds of intermediate data snapshots.

Reference:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/09/11/maximizing-the-dimensions-of-scalability-to-grow-business-intelligence/?sh=73c05a1290af