What’s In an Interface? Ease Of Business Intelligence Use Means Success
Your business intelligence solution is the window to the data that helps business users identify new opportunities and make informed, effective decisions. Even though business intelligence play a vital role in the running of a tight business, some users are still loath to adopt the technology as they see it as being difficult to use, and hard to look at. The interfaces tend to put a lot of average users off.
If you want to figure out how easy a business intelligence solution is to use, you have to look at a number of factors. The first and probably most important is the ease of use of the software – if users can’t figure it out and get things done quickly, it will be a waste of time for you and your business partners to even consider it. Remember that a business intelligence solution isn’t just about the power user who plugs away at it all day- it should be available for even the casual user who needs to check a statistic quickly, and they all have different expectations for working with your business intelligence software. When considering your solution, you need to keep all users in mind and as a result you need to cater for both the power user and the casual inexperienced user.
Business intelligence tools are often rated as the most difficult to use, compared with applications like excel and outlook – and even the power users often rate them as excessively difficult to master. The trick here to is adopt a solution that is perceived as easy to use, and statistics show that those organizations who would describe their business intelligence application as easy to use tend to also have a higher adoption rate for business intelligence around all facets of the organization.
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