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Data Leadership
Data Leadership: Top Cloud Analytics Mistakes – and How to Avoid Them
100 mid-market leaders on what they wish they’d done differently when it comes to data, analytics, and AI.
If you’re wondering if you’re falling behind in the race to reap the benefits of a fully modernized cloud-based data ecosystem, you’re not alone. And if you have questions about the challenges ahead and how to overcome them, you’re in good company. In this ebook, you’ll learn about the experiences of 100 data-and-analytics leaders at mid-market companies. Some are leading the charge toward high-performing data and analytics. Others are just out of the gate. All have insights to share.
This 25-page report will give you insights into a range of topics, including:
- Challenges and benefits of getting past a lift-and-shift mentality
- Stakeholder alignment as a key success factor
- Risks of relying on outdated data management habits
- Hub-and-spoke: the winning data management model
- Common mistakes to avoid in implementing AI
- Borrowing the talent you need for as long as you need it
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About Ironside
Ironside was founded in 1999 as an enterprise data and analytics solution provider and system integrator. Our clients hire us to acquire, enrich and measure their data so they can make smarter, better decisions about their business. No matter your industry or specific business challenges, Ironside has the experience, perspective and agility to help transform your analytic environment.
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Modern Analytics Framework
Modern Analytics Framework: Supporting your Move to Better Analytics and Greater Insight
Is your current data analytics framework delivering all the insights your data is capable of providing, or is it time for analytics modernization? Whether you’re unsure — or know the time is right but wonder about the best approach — our eBook has the answers.
Learn about our proven, streamlined approach to taking your current framework from where it is to where it needs to be, for less cost and in less time than you might imagine.
This comprehensive guide covers a range of topics, including:
- Components of a Modern Analytics Framework: rapid insight generation, data as a Service (DaaS) and automated value delivery
- Key considerations for effective analytics modernization and a sound cloud-analytics strategy
- Data governance framework components, structure, and planning
- The benefits of an iterative approach to evolving your framework
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About Ironside
Ironside was founded in 1999 as an enterprise data and analytics solution provider and system integrator. Our clients hire us to acquire, enrich and measure their data so they can make smarter, better decisions about their business. No matter your industry or specific business challenges, Ironside has the experience, perspective and agility to help transform your analytic environment.
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Reinventing BI Leadership in the AI Enterprise
How to Evolve and Thrive in a Rapidly Changing Technology Environment
This eBook is all about making a career move. It’s about business intelligence leaders who want to build on what they’ve achieved for their organizations, and transform their roles as their work environments evolve – always remaining on the cutting edge of change, as relevant, irreplaceable and in touch with the pulse of their company as ever.
Download this 17 page eBook to gain insight into our point of view on how to evolve and thrive in today’s rapidly changing technology environment.
Here’s what you’ll learn about:
- Part 1: The Typical BI Conversation
- Part 2: New Roles, Exciting Opportunities
- Part 3: Your Next Step
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Jump-Start AI at your Organization
If you’re a BI/DW leader in your organization and you are seeking to advance your organization or plan your next career move, Ironside will partner with you to build data science capabilities at your organization. Learn more about Ironside’s AI Jump-Start.
About Ironside
Ironside was founded in 1999 as an enterprise data and analytics solution provider and system integrator. Our clients hire us to acquire, enrich and measure their data so they can make smarter, better decisions about their business. No matter your industry or specific business challenges, Ironside has the experience, perspective and agility to help transform your analytic environment.
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Five Essential Capabilities of the Competitive Data-Driven Enterprise
Discover How Ironside Can Help You Enable Your Organization as a Data-Driven Enterprise
Be competitive in your environment. Implement programs that will catalyze measurable business results from mountains of business information and amplify the usefulness and ROI of your existing investments in analytics.
Download this 38 page eBook to gain insight into how to become a competitive, data-driven enterprise.
The Five Capabilities:
- The Data Catalog
- Data Wrangling
- Automated Machine Learning
- Master Data Management
- Elastic Data Processing & Storage
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Get Started
If you’re interested in exploring the five capabilities in your organization, contact us today. We’ll set you up with an expert to walk you through the process and enable your organization as a data-driven enterprise.
About Ironside
Ironside was founded in 1999 as an enterprise data and analytics solution provider and system integrator. Our clients hire us to acquire, enrich and measure their data so they can make smarter, better decisions about their business. No matter your industry or specific business challenges, Ironside has the experience, perspective and agility to help transform your analytic environment.
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How To Build a Modern Data & Analytics Governance Framework
Discover How Ironside Can Help You Develop A Well Designed and Managed Governance Process
Explore how to design and implement a Modern Data & Analytics Governance framework.
Data & Analytics Governance allows an organization to better leverage data as an asset and to unlock its value.
Download this 16 page How To Guide to gain insight into our methodology and walk through a step-by-step process to implement Governance in your organization. Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The Governance Process
- The Approach
- The Framework
- The Governance Model in Action
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Manage Your Data & Analytics Capabilities
Ironside’s Data & Analytics Framework allows you to work through the process to design a governance model that is ‘designed for purpose’ – built to the needs of your organization, your culture, and your content.
We’re here to help you find the approach that best fits your organization.
About Ironside
Ironside was founded in 1999 as an enterprise data and analytics solution provider and system integrator. Our clients hire us to acquire, enrich and measure their data so they can make smarter, better decisions about their business. No matter your industry or specific business challenges, Ironside has the experience, perspective and agility to help transform your analytic environment.
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Your Partner in Developing a Data & Analytics Strategy
Discover How Ironside Can Help You Develop A Company-Wide Data & Analytics Strategy
Leverage the data available to you to make more informed business decisions.
Whether you are looking to reduce the time and cost to generate insights or unlock the value of data in your organization – often the first step is to create a data & analytics roadmap, a task many companies find daunting.
Where do you begin?
Download this 7 page product overview to gain insight into our methodology and take the first step in mapping your journey forward. Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Ironside’s Approach
- How We Do It
- Sample Work Products
- What You Can Expect
- What Sets Ironside Apart
- Take the Assessment
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How To Get Started
Count on Ironside to focus on the needs of your users, work with you to achieve the most ambitious business outcomes, and extract the real value of information to deliver an actionable roadmap that shows you all of the initiatives you need to execute to reach your desired state of data & analytics maturity.
About Ironside
Ironside was founded in 1999 as an enterprise data and analytics solution provider and system integrator. Our clients hire us to acquire, enrich and measure their data so they can make smarter, better decisions about their business. No matter your industry or specific business challenges, Ironside has the experience, perspective and agility to help transform your analytic environment.
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Empower the Team with Experience Design
COMPANY OVERVIEW
An American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.
BUSINESS NEED
The Analytics team in the Ethics and Compliance Division had been getting a lot of traction with a growing number of internal teams. Suddenly, everyone needed insights and visualizations from their data. The small team found themselves with a ton of work to do, designing and delivering dashboard after dashboard. Every design phase was a long and painful process, as the team had great difficulty extracting clear requirements from their stakeholders. They were looking for a way to change how they worked with stakeholders and break out of the cycle.
SOLUTION
The client brought in Ironside to run a 3-day workshop, with the goal of getting the team quickly ramped up on Experience Design techniques and best practices, in order to help them get unstuck. We started with an overview of design thinking concepts, then went through the end-to-end process in depth. The team practiced the techniques using their own business problems, and we ended with a discussion of the practical details of rolling out these processes internally.
Understand Experience Design
Learn the Process
Apply the Process
Utilize the Techniques
KEYS TO SUCCESS
The 3-day workshop resulted in the following benefits for the client:
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Enable the Tableau Enterprise
COMPANY OVERVIEW
The largest equipment rental company in North America, with about 11% of the region’s market share, the largest rental fleet in the world, and almost 1,000 locations across the US and Canada.
BUSINESS NEED
The client had recently implemented Tableau to support a move toward more visual, actionable analytics. Their objective was to enable a distributed development approach, however they were struggling with a lack of consistency in the performance, overall quality, and visual design of prototype dashboards built by different teams and needed a way to provide common standards so that successful prototypes could more quickly go through an operationalization process for wider distribution.
SOLUTION
Ironside was engaged in the following phases to assess a sample of the existing prototypes, advise on data modeling, dashboard development, and visual design best practices, and work with the client team to implement a common set of standards for Tableau authors and those supporting them.
Assess Current State
Make Recommendations & Standards
Demonstrate Value
Scale Value
KEYS TO SUCCESS
Through the Tableau Enterprise Enablement initiative, the client achieved the following benefits:
About Tableau
Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Used by more than 19,000 companies and organizations worldwide, Tableau delivers fast analytics, visualization, and rapid-fire business intelligence and helps you drive data discovery with stunning, intuitive visualizations. Tableau has a diverse range of platform types and deployment approaches. Whether you just need a simple, compact desktop app or an enterprise-grade on-prem or cloud environment, Tableau can size itself to fit your organizational goals and needs.
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Formulate a Data & Analytics Roadmap for Acquisition Growth Strategy
COMPANY OVERVIEW
A medical professional liability insurance company with clients and services spanning the U.S. that specializes in underwriting policies for physicians, dentists, advanced practices, clinics, and hospitals.
BUSINESS NEED
The firm looked to strategic acquisitions to bolster growth. However, acquisitions presented challenges such as consolidating the customer base, cumbersome data integration, conflicting master and reference data, and impaired data accessibility. To solve these issues—and create and extract unrealized value from old and new business operations—the firm needed a partner.
SOLUTION
Ironside’s Advisory team was called in to partner on a Data & Analytics Roadmap to chart the firm’s growth, establish enterprise-wide data governance, and create an improved data integration framework that allows new acquisitions to continue independent operations. The partnership consisted of four parts:
Find Opportunities
Identify Focus Areas
Generate Value
Revolutionize M&A Data Capabilities
KEYS TO SUCCESS
By leveraging data governance and MDM, the firm established a repeatable methodology to integrate and standardize data across multiple business lines. They were able to:
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Target Short List of Vendors for Enterprise Analytics
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Global asset manager with investment offices in major trading centers worldwide.
BUSINESS NEED
The company was struggling with how to unify its analytics approach, while remaining compliant with financial industry standards. With different departments gathering information in disparate ways, the existing model was not sustainable. It was imperative to identify common use cases, target a short list of vendors whose capabilities matched the use cases, and navigate the RFP and demo processes.
SOLUTION
Ironside was called in, and made it clear from the outset that system selection is about people, not just technology. The approach consisted of four steps:
Make Analytics Human
Narrow the Focus
Dig Deeper
Make the Choice
KEYS TO SUCCESS
The vendor selection process enabled the client to: