Knowing about self-service reports
Self-service reports are becoming more and more common as companies continue to develop software specifically for this purpose. There are now several different kinds of self-service reports, but the most common by far is the dashboard report. A dashboard uses software, an application, or a web service to give limited access to specific metrics, data, or visualizations.
Why are these increasing in popularity? Because after they are set up by a data analyst, anyone you give access can use the application to answer their own questions. This is especially important when there are positions in the company that require non-data specialists to interact with data. Consider a mortgage company: a mortgage agent may not be a trained data professional, but they need to be able to access things such as the current interest rate quickly and easily when working with clients. This way, they don’t need to put the client on hold, call you up, and ask you...