Strengthening Self-Service Analytics with Data Preparation and Data Virtualization

Description:

Self‐service analytics implies that users design and develop their own reports and do their own data

analysis with minimal support by IT. Most recently, due to the availability of tools, such as those from Qlik,

Spotfire, and Tableau, self‐service analytics has become immensely popular. Besides powerful analytical

and visualization capabilities, they all support functionality for accessing and integrating data sources.

With respect to this aspect of data integration four phases can be identified in the relatively short history

of self‐service analytics. This whitepaper describes these four phases in detail and shows how the tools

Cisco Data Preparation (CDP) and Cisco Information Server (CIS) for data virtualization can strengthen and

enrich the self‐service data integration capabilities of tools for reporting and analytics.