Posted by: Scott Royston in News on
Apr 15, 2008
Looking back on my 15 years of software experience, it's amazing to me how pervasive the need for analytics has been. Once you have a piece of operational software even close to working, people start asking:
- Which product configurations are the most popular?
- What was my average price for this product over the last quarter?
- What was my overall commission spend for the Northwest region?
Even outside the software products, we were always internally asking the same sort of questions: - What is our acceptance rate on new hires from top tier schools?
- What's been our monthly outsourcing spend over the past half?
- How many defect are we finding per day? Who's finding the most?
You'd think with such a pervasive need and more than 10 years of a booming internet the available analytic options wouldn't suck so much.
