Thursday 29 August 2013

BIG DATA with Encanvas (infographic)

In this infographic I explain how Encanvas employs big data as its raw material to accelerate the pace of business innovation.  Of course, data doesn't have to be BIG to be useful.  Over the last 10-years I've seen many good ways of extracting value from data by simply having more data of different types accessible to business analysts. For example, one professional services company was able to improve their presentation of credentials by exploiting data from a third party database to enrich their customer records and map their customer records onto their project data to build a richer understanding of what they'd delivered (how and to whom) to improve the quality of their case stories.

Accelerating the pace of business innovation requires not just the means to harvest data and analyze it - businesses ALSO need the tools to improve their processes and embed learning lessons into their day-to-day activities.  This is by far no mean feat!

Encanvas overcomes the natural reticence of organizations to change, break age old 'norms of behavior' and embrace better ways of working by creating applications without asking organizations to invest in IT infrastructure or spend days, weeks or months on IT projects with no clear ROI.  Building a situational application in a day or half-day workshops session means that businesses can understand the value of data - and apply it - removing the risk and cost of process change.

Speaking to users of Encanvas, they will very often rebuild apps many times as they learn from their data and re-apply learning lessons to improve processes.  This would not be practical or affordable if a traditional software development or enterprise platform like Microsoft SharePoint was used to fashion applications.

The original infographic can be viewed on slideshare here.

How Encanvas Makes Big Data Work Better (Infographic)

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