Survey Says Self-Service Data Preparation Increases Workplace Value of Tableau Analysts
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CHELMSFORD, Mass., Oct. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Self-service data
preparation technology significantly increases the value of Tableau users to
their businesses by freeing them to spend more time on high-value analytics.
That is one of several key findings from a survey conducted at the recent
Tableau Conference 2015, the world's largest gathering of data enthusiasts.
Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) polled more than 145 Tableau users at
the Conference to get their perspectives on what drives and inhibits
productivity in analytics. One of the most recurring complaints was that data
preparation is a huge time sink. A vast majority of users (65%) report that they
spend more than half of their time preparing data before they are able to focus
on their analytic work.
That's why technology that automates and accelerates the data preparation phase
can improve careers, the responses indicate. Approximately 55% of Tableau users
say that self-service data preparation technology has increased their value to
their organization by 50% or more, and 27% report even greater increases to the
value they deliver to their organization by 76% to 100%.
"These responses are stunning. Tableau users complain that there is a dearth of
tools for getting data in shape and order. But once they discover self-service
data prep technology, they report it adds fantastic value because it lets them
invest more of their time uncovering insights for their organizations through
visual analysis," said Dan Potter, chief marketing officer at Datawatch. "We
believe that data prep should be fast and effortless for all analysts, and the
numbers back that up."
Limited access to data was another significant finding. Approximately 69% of
respondents said that they lack access to a quarter or more of the data they
need to do their job. And 33% say that more than half of the data they need is
inaccessible.
The survey revealed that access to data is constrained by multiple factors.
Sometimes security and IT policies make access to data difficult. Other times it
is due to the fact that the data they need is locked up in reports, PDFs, log
files and other unstructured or multi-structured sources that are difficult to
utilize in Tableau.
Here, again, self-service data preparation technology can play a pivotal role by
extracting, cleansing, preparing and blending this otherwise unworkable data
into high-value data for solving business problems.
"Self-service data preparation technology should be able to connect to any kind
of data, from multi-structured text reports from enterprise applications to
things like web data APIs and streaming data from the Internet of Things. And
preparing the data for visual analysis should not take more time than creating
the visualizations themselves. This is particularly true for organizations in
healthcare, retail, energy and manufacturing, which the survey revealed are most
in need of a self-service data prep solution," Potter said.
Datawatch has made the full findings of the survey publicly available in a
visual application available in Tableau Public: www.datawatch.com/tableausurvey.
About Datawatch Corporation
Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) provides the only Managed Analytics
Platform that brings together self-service data preparation with visual data
discovery. Its software bridges the gap between the ease that business user's
demand and the automation and governance needed by IT. Users can quickly
discover key factors that improve their business by transforming data from
multi-structured sources, as well as real-time streaming data, into visually
rich analytic applications. Organizations of every size, worldwide use Datawatch
products, including 93 of the Fortune 100. Datawatch is headquartered in
Chelmsford, Massachusetts with offices in New York, London, Frankfurt,
Stockholm, Singapore, Melbourne and Manila, and with partners and customers in
more than 100 countries worldwide. Learn more at www.datawatch.com. For investor
relations information, visit investor.datawatch.com.
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