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Illustrating results

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Illustrating results

- So what is all this data telling me? There's eight powerful words you hope to never hear from a client. Generally speaking, consumers of business intelligence, that is, your clients, don't want to have to wade through thousands of rows of data, even if the insights are in there somewhere. After all, they are paying you to take this pain away for them. You might have spent months sourcing and analyzing data and have identified interesting observations about your client's business. But let me tell you something, all your hard work will go to waste if you're unable to effectively present your findings. I consider this to be the fun part of business intelligence. And one thing I can say for sure is that clients want answers, not more questions. They want results to be presented in a way that is easy to understand and in a way that draws them towards the things that tell them something about their organization that they didn't already know. Now, remember, business intelligence is all…

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