Dashboards To Actionable Apps — Know More About Embedded Analytics

CodeStore Technologies
5 min readMar 9, 2021

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Introduction:-

Dashboards are great and they will always be having a great place in the world of analytics and BI. The world of analytics and data is changing. The concept is very simple not every user who could benefit from insights is going to become a dashboard jockey or a BI expert. And now they don’t have to! The ability to leave dashboards and behind and create data experiences is putting more and more insights into the hands of more users. Embedding, customizing, and integrating those analytics widgets into other business apps is flipping the script: users don’t come to the data, the data comes to them.

Analytics and BI superusers love dashboards — getting buried in data, digging into every KPI, and coming up with more interactive visuals — most users just want the bottom line: Are sales up or down? That’s why analytics platforms are expanding their features to include more and more ways for users of all kinds to get the data and insights they need in easy-to-digest bites. Instead of setting the table for the whole dashboard just to get one piece of information, they break the desired KPI out into a standalone app or widget.

Presentation of data and insights has its own way. These can go anywhere according to the need of the user and most importantly these can be embedded, customized, and integrated into any of the applications. Let’s know each of the features in brief.

Embedding:-

The versatile, highly-mobile, standalone analytics utilities discussed are designed to go anywhere in a user’s workflow that the info and insights are most useful. This means they can give the users constant updates on KPIs that can drive decisions and actions throughout the day.

Customizing:-

Using standalone data and analytics widgets that are customized to your own way of working is key to adoption and getting values out of data. The users can set the look, feel, and visualization to make things easier for handling. They also put the functionality to take action right alongside the data helping in improving the adoption and efficiency.

Integrating:-

This is one of the best ways to get people to use analytics in their day-to-day business activities. Embedding analytics within applications that users can easily use in their daily life. With the help of proper data and information, they can complete the actions.

Dashboards are not dead, they are still very much popular among the users. The new dashboards are capable enough to develop the most portable analytics widgets that can fit right where the users need them and can also improve the workflow of an organization.

Increased Engagement, Faster Decisions, and Better Results:-

The technology is moving very fast, and the users are getting very little time to know each and every tech in depth. Sometimes they lose interest. Portable analytics is also one of the new tech trends and capable enough to improve the workflow and can drive a great number of users. This smooth synthesis process makes the accessing of data and insights is natural and is not something dreaded.

With the help of this familiarity and regular use of insights comes increased speed to decisions. Narrowing focus and putting the right insights in the right place for each user to extract maximum values from them and make the best possible decisions is maybe the optimum way humans can harness this upheaval of data. With the custom-tailored insights integrated into workflows, every human is smarter and every decision is made better and faster.

How are people combining actions and analytics?

The combination of actions and insights in highly portable widgets and apps gives users the freedom to custom-design experiences that suits their workflows. There are 2 key features that allow standalone widgets to interact with other systems are webhooks and writebacks. There are also a variety of ways that the look and feel of the application can be easily customized, based on the functionality.

The webhooks and writebacks give standalone analytics widgets the ability to interact with other systems and make users more efficient. The Writeback updates the systems of record while staying within the context of the widgets, while the webhooks can help in posting and even launching processes in other apps.

A webhook between a widget and a transaction database could simplify completing a new sale by alerting the user to click the ‘buy’ button when the item in question reaches a certain price. The user then could have the choice to purchase, add to the wishlist, and can also share the link with any other user. These frameworks also give users a wide array of visualization options to display datasets. The users who want to focus on only one thing at a time can use a “lightbox” feature to display images or video that fills the screen and dims everything else.

What’s new in this?

Analytics and BI companies already know that giving users custom-tailored analytics widgets and apps and embeddable utilities is the way of the future. Here’s a peek at some market approaches that are being developed right now.

Some approaches include infographic tools that allow customers to create visually insightful communication materials and automate the delivery to a large audience section. However, this approach doesn’t allow users to take actions alongside the data.

Summing Up:-

Dashboards aren’t dead, as more and more apps are being built with analytics as a part of the core offerings, like CMS website hosting software which can use productivity tools and analytics software will start to blur until it becomes meaningless.

CodeStore Technologies puts efforts into giving users the most customizable, highly-portable analytics widgets that can go anywhere to help the users in getting the best insights and upgrade their workflows. The future of analytics and BI will take many forms, all of them bringing insights and data to humans with less complexity.

We help users by giving them a robust array of templates to design standalone analytical widgets and integrate user actions into them. Our widgets can track inventory and can be combined with a button that triggers a new order more efficiently.

We are always there to help you. If you have any questions or queries then share them to- sales@codestoresolutions.com

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CodeStore Technologies
CodeStore Technologies

Written by CodeStore Technologies

CodeStore Technologies is a leading mobile and web app development company in India and the USA with a special focus on digital transformation methods.

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