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Dashboards Are Dead

May 19, 2021

For more than 20 years, dashboards served as a foundational element of business intelligence, helping leaders visualize and share valuable data across their organization.

Yet even after two decades of tremendous investment, analytics adoption rates have stagnated at just 30 percent. Today, only 10 percent of executives believe their company is analytics mature and more than 84 percent of frontline workers report poor analytics experiences and needing better insights technology. That’s because dashboards weren’t built to meet the needs of today’s always-on, always-changing world. Your business can’t afford to wait days or weeks for trained analysts to produce insights from stale data. You need personalized insights from your cloud data now.

In this e-book, you’ll learn why data leaders are increasingly turning away from analytics dashboards and discover:

  • The hidden operation costs weighing down your data team
  • Why dashboards can never truly deliver the timely, personalized insights your frontline workers need to drive value
  • How search and AI are creating a new paradigm for analytics


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