Foundational Questions

What is "data analytics" – aka "business intelligence"?

"Data analytics" usually refers to the analysis of structured data – most commonly tables of text and numbers, such as a customer list or an earnings report – to answer questions about business performance or business opportunities. Unstructured data, such as full documents, images, audio recordings, and video, are increasingly entering the analytical fold, but in order to be analyzed in a 'data analytics' or BI process, they are usually rendered into some uniform structure.

Businesspeople of all kinds very often need to do some sort of data analysis: for planning and/or evaluation of efforts and programs. And you often have access to a wide variety of data sources, living in all sorts of places.

Currently this is often a fraught and difficult process: problems ranging from access to expertise to data consistency to time-intensiveness interfere with you getting the answers you need, when you need them.

Dashbud is an AI-enabled data platform that overcomes these problems. To see how it does this, read on.

Where does your data live?

Here are the common places, or types of places, where your data is located:

Dashbud isn't trying to change this. Instead, Dashbud improves how you go from these diverse data sources to useful, actionable answers.