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Embedded analytics: the full course meal of information delivery. 

Queries, reports, and dashboards may be the bread and butter of information delivery, and analytics may be the layer cake, but none can completely satisfy if they're not part of a business process.

Listen, we love cake. And we can certainly enjoy it on its own. But let's face it: the nutritional value is a little lacking.

We think of information delivery the same way. Reports, dashboards, analytics--they're all good. But on their own, their usefulness is a little lacking. Actually, their usefulness can be downright nonexistent unless you take the information you get from them and manually apply it to other tasks. And even then, the time lag is opportunity wasted.

Embedding analytics into your business processes and applications, however--that is a powerhouse of usefulness:

• It enables in-the-moment action the way that standalone information cannot.
• It takes decisions out of the conference room and brings them to the front lines.
• It extends BI beyond big, strategic decisions to everyday ones.
• It gives more information currency to more employees--not just the specialized analysts.
• It enables you to respond to events when they happen--especially at the level of the individual customer, product or supplier. 
• Perhaps most importantly, it is the key to making BI accessible, straightforward, usable, and sometimes even transparent for your workforce. 

Data isn't just for your data warehouse anymore. Embedded analytics puts your business intelligence directly into a production environment, where it can generate real-time results.

From here to embedded analytics...

Getting analytics into your business processes is not as simple as adding an app to your iPhone, but it is completely within your reach. It requires attention to the full SDLC, from strategy to architecture to development to testing and rollout, with a skilled partner. Clarity is ready to help. We'll work with you to:

• Decide what process or what department at your organization can benefit most from embedded analytics, and start there--but tie the effort to a vision and master plan to avoid analytical silos.
• Prepare your solution blueprint and information architecture for a fusion of operational and analytical environments, and a service-oriented approach to data.
• Enhance your data integration applications to handle the demands of embedded analytics, which require data from a variety of applications. Clarity's services in data integration and data virtualization can help. 
• Deliver the data quality you need for embedded analytics. Making data available to operational systems requires an aggressive commitment to reliable data.
• Develop analytical applications as a service to non-analytical applications using both interactive development environments and analytic development environments, both offered by major BI vendors.
• Enable your organization to prototype, test, and build embedded analytics independently through analytic workbenches.
• Present the results of embedded analytics in formats like email, to complement the way that users work.
• Implement knowledge transfer and change management so that your users are ready to interpret and apply analytics in their daily decision making.

Ready to put your BI to work with embedded analytics? Contact us today.