Key findings from Lavastorm Analytics’ survey of more than 600 business analysts, technologists, data analytics professionals, managers, and C-level professionals

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Survey Results
Analytics 2013

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Key findings from Lavastorm Analytics’ survey of
more than 600 business analysts, technologists,
data analytics professionals, managers, and C-
level professionals

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Who Completed the Survey?

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Key Findings

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In which areas will you be
investing more resources?

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In What Area is Your Company Investing in 2013?
CONCLUSION:
Predictive analytics
and Big Data are
driving investment

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What is Your Biggest Challenge in Analytics Today?
QUOTABLE “…understanding what it takes to action findings! Findings
that cannot be acted on are often just “interesting”.”

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What Self-service Analytic Tool are You Currently Using?
CONCLUSION:
Tools for analysis
are fragmented;
People are still
relying on basic
spreadsheets
and databases,
not really
designed for
analytics

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QUOTABLE
“…shortage of true
data scientists
capable of
marrying big data
skills with business
acumen…”

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Conclusions – What You are Facing
Bandwidth/Skills Data Explosion
Need for Speed

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About Lavastorm Analytics

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Lavastorm Solves Your Analytic Challenges
Analytic Challenges Lavastorm’s Difference
Skills  Gives analysts the power of programmers for analytics
 High-level, visual building blocks capture analytic logic
 Visualizations and visual models help analysts present results
Data Integration  Acquire virtually any source data – no overarching schema
 “Precise” control to profile, inspect, transform
 Automates processes, including data quality
Agility  10x acceleration of integration and analytic projects
 Design, test, debug, and deploy in one place
Trust  Visual models expose analytic logic, create audit trail,
building trust with managers/peers
ROI  Empowers users for insight discovery, decision
making, process automation
 Start small – single toolset goes from desktop to data center

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