Here’s an interesting piece of trivia. IBM once reported that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created everyday, worldwide. However, nearly 90% of that structured data goes unanalyzed. This data is known as dark data.

Now let’s switch gears to your business. A sizeable volume of data flows in and out of your business everyday. But is your analytical infrastructure helping you harness the power of that data, or does it remain dark?

Even a marginal drop in the dark data percentage can unearth powerful insights for a business. But for this to happen, it’s vital for businesses to have a robust information ecosystem.

The dumbbell model is a simple framework that describes the key attributes of an information ecosystem:

We frequently come across customers who are using Zoho Analytics to analyze interesting, diverse data sets. They’re so interesting, in fact, that we wanted to handpick a few of our favorites to showcase for you in our blog post today.

Everything you need to know about the Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel established the five Nobel prizes in 1895.

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Mitrefinch is a global provider of workforce management solutions for organizations that need to monitor and manage their workforce while controlling labor costs. The company provides intelligent employee management solutions to over 4,500 medium-to-large organizations, in both the public and private sectors.

Mitrefinch and Zoho Analytics

Mitrefinch had complex sets of data generated from their global customer support functions. Analyzing it was a big challenge. Their initial BI tool, Microsoft Excel, couldn’t handle such a complex task.

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Founded in 2012, Sugarfina is a mid-sized luxury candy boutique headquartered in California, US. They own and operate 52 retail stores across North America that produce and sell gourmet chocolates, caramels, gummies, malt balls, and licorice candies.

In our previous posts, we discussed how data analytics can help you optimize your sales execution. We also went into some of the key sales metrics every business owner needs to track to stay ahead of the game. In this post, we’re going to look at how Ask Zia, our AI-powered smart analytical assistant, can empower any user to do in-depth sales analytics.