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The 5 Things You Should Look for in Your BI Embedded Analytics, White Label or Reseller Partnership
At 5000fish, we’ve always been a partner-friendly company, which aligns well with our values of making things easier and making customer service our number one priority. After years of partnering with companies to make business user-friendly business intelligence (BI) a reality within different organizations, we’re formalizing our partnership program. During our effort to formalize our…
The Top 10 Features You Need in Your BI Solution (And One You Didn’t Know You Needed)
Many companies are currently searching for dashboard and reporting solutions, but the market has become pretty crowded. Though most BI vendors have similar core functionalities, not all solutions are created equally. That’s why we’ve put together our list of the top 10 features your BI solution should definitely have, and one feature you didn’t know…
The Top 4 Most Important Training Options to Look for in a BI Solution
We’ve previously noted that user adoption is a huge pain point that has plagued the business intelligence (BI) industry for years. One factor that influences BI adoption failure is a lack of training. Often, companies will provide basic training or instruction to users, but then assume that users can handle any remaining training on their…
How Much Does White Label and OEM Embedded Analytics Dashboards Cost?
At 5000fish, we work with many partners that are researching white label and OEM embedded analytics and dashboards as they decide whether to build or buy a reporting solution. Logically, the primary question these companies ask is, “How much does it cost?” Because we like to be very transparent about pricing and costs, we wanted…
The Top Issues with BMC Smart Reporting
BMC ITSM recently made a significant shift in its out-of-the-box reporting strategy. As we’ve mentioned in the past, BMC used to white label SAP BusinessObjects as its reporting tool and branded it as BMC Analytics. With its most recent update, BMC ditched SAP Business Objects and now white labels Yellowfin BI and has branded its…
8 Tips for Building Better Executive Marketing Dashboards
What does it take to implement a great marketing plan for your business? A well-thought-out strategy, a carefully mapped out plan of execution, a great team to carry out the legwork, and a marketing dashboard to streamline and track all your efforts. With a visual interface that gives users a big-picture view of the business’…
The Top 7 Reasons Why Business Intelligence User Adoption Fails
The business intelligence (BI) industry has been plagued with poor user adoption for years. Though implementing a BI solution is a top CIO initiative year after year, BI has a huge failure rate within companies. We believe the primary reason for BI failure is poor user adoption. In this article, we’ll look at the top…
Case Study: Yurbi Tackles a Data Extraction Nightmare (That’s More Common Than You Think)
Here at 5000fish, we encounter many unique challenges companies face regarding data collection, storage, and reporting. Recently, we took on a customer that was facing a data extraction problem. The customer is a manufacturing company that has been in business for more than 40 years and has grown to the point where it now has…
Feature Update: Yurbi Dashboard Scheduling
We’ve highlighted our report scheduler in previous posts (including this one and this one), and now we have a new update to share! Previously, users were only able to schedule reports within Yurbi. Now, users can also schedule dashboards. Here’s how it works: When users goes into the action menu on a dashboard library item,…
Feature Update: Printable Dashboards
Previously, Yurbi users could view dashboards and share dashboards via embedded links, but users did not have the ability to print dashboards…until now. Similarly to printable reports, Yurbi users can now print dashboards. Here’s how it works: When a user goes into a dashboard, the user will take a snapshot of the dashboard by clicking…