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Question

Data Management/Analysis

Sep 2, 2016 7:29AM PDT

Hi everyone,

I'm curious: when you think about collecting, organizing, and especially using your business' data (shipments, sales, customers, etc.), what is your biggest frustration? Put another way, what issues do you have in terms of data management, data analysis, and using your data to provide something helpful for running your business? Thanks for any feedback you have!

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Actually none.
Sep 2, 2016 8:23AM PDT

This is something we have our staff do as we need it. My guess is it's frustrating for companies that don't have the staff.

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Following up
Sep 2, 2016 8:32AM PDT

Thanks for the reply! I'm glad to hear you have staff and resources to handle it. What would you say is the most important activity you have your staff do in this area, and is there any frustration associated with that at all?

Also, what tools/products do you use to help with data usage? What do you like/dislike about those tools?

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Sorry but for me
Sep 2, 2016 8:37AM PDT

It's frustration free. Remember our office is mostly programmers and the only ones that get frustrated are those that think the answer should happen in real time. That is, some questions that involve a dataset in the millions take a few hours to get. Now if we wanted to move to a cloud computing system with a lot more nodes that time could drop.

Did you ever catch on that T=M? (time = money)

Post was last edited on September 12, 2016 11:27 PM PDT

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Did we get enough information
Sep 12, 2016 9:19AM PDT

Maybe we always have a question 'Did we get enough information to make the right conclusions?' and one more 'Did we take into account all possible factors?'

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You made me think that
Sep 12, 2016 11:28PM PDT

I've had clients that demand the data support or make the right conclusions.

I'm sure you've seen this before.