What is SSDP and Can it Truly Make Analytics Self-Serve?

SSDP (otherwise known as self-serve data preparation) is the logical evolution of business intelligence analytical tools. With self-serve tools, data discovery and analytics tools are accessible to team members and business users across the enterprise. What is SSDP? SSDP or Self-Serve Data Preparation is a […]

Augmented Data Preparation and Self-Service ETL!

What is Self Service Data Preparation? Data prep can slow down analytics and cause delays. Self-service data preparation (when done right) can enable business users to leverage sophisticated, easy-to-use tools for self-serve ETL. Data extraction, transformation and loading (otherwise known as ETL) can be time-consuming […]

Elegant MicroWeb (Smarten SSDP Solution) Named as a Representative Vendors in Gartner April 2019 ‘Market Guide for Data Preparation Tools’

Elegant MicroWeb is included in the Gartner Market Guide for Data Preparation Tools, published on April 17, 2019. The Elegant MicroWeb (Smarten SSDP solution) is listed as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Data Preparation. The CEO of Elegant MicroWeb, Smarten, Kartik […]

What is Self-Service Data Preparation?

Data Literacy and Self-Serve Data Prep Encourage Citizen Data Scientists! In years past, data preparation was the domain of IT professionals and data scientists. In order to prepare data for analysis, one had to find, gather, and prepare the data and that preparation included cleaning, […]

Augmented Analytics for Every Business and Industry!

Is An Augmented Analytics Solution Right for My Organization? Self-Serve Data Preparation is a critical component of augmented analytics. If these terms seem foreign to you, just know that they represent the future of business analysis. As organizations adopt self-serve business analysis, the business user […]

Self-Serve Data Preparation for YOUR Users

Self-Serve Data Prep Should be Just That – Self-Serve! Self-serve has many meanings. You can pump your own gas, you can serve yourself at a buffet, and sometimes you can even do your own data preparation. You will notice that I said ‘sometimes’. That is […]

Self-Serve Data Preparation for Business Users

Is Self-Serve Data Preparation Really Possible? Your business users are ready to do the job! They have a lot of data spread across the enterprise in various data repositories and forms and they want to pull it all together and analyze the data to get […]

Why Do You Need Self-Serve Data Preparation?

Self-Serve Data Preparation Takes the Headache Out of Data Analytics! Self-Serve Data Preparation (aka augmented data preparation) is all about efficiency and the presentation of sophisticated data preparation tools in an easy-to-use environment. The idea behind self-service data preparation is to give the average business […]

Is Self-Serve Data Prep the Same as Augmented Data Prep?

Self-Serve Data Preparation and Augmented Data Prep Go Hand in Hand! I was talking to a friend the other day and she shared with me her experience at a recent business intelligence conference. She was a bit confused by some of the terminology and we […]

Self-Serve Data Prep Puts the Power in Hands of Your Users

Self-Serve Data Preparation is Easy as Pie! Data preparation tools come in many shapes and sizes and not all are equal. If your business is interested in implementing a self-serve environment where its business users can become a greater asset to the organization, and use […]