Self-Service Data Preparation is the New Frontier in Transforming Data

Self-service analytics allows business professionals to run and modify their own queries and reports, regardless of skill level. With the importance of real-time data and KPI’s increasing in the business world, information turnaround time is ideally shortened. This coveted form of business intelligence (BI) progresses the company both in independent efficiency and resource flexibility. 

Self-service Data Preparation in Action 

Self-service data preparation is the new frontier in transforming data, so it is relevant to understand its context within the workplace. Self-service reporting authorizes business users direct access to the source of data analysis, consisting of customized components chosen by the end user. This ease of accessibility, with little to no training criteria, eliminates the middleman, making the business process incredibly efficient. Not only this, but self-service analytics helps extract the maximum value out of both the data, platform or application used, and cycle time.

This new frontier in transforming data hasn’t come without limitations. Some companies’ self-service reporting applications and tools aren’t user-friendly and complicate making informed decisions by missing bits of the whole picture. 

Trifacta’s unique approach to self-service reporting eliminates application limitations by disrupting data privacy. Its self-service data prep has led to routine recognition as a top self-service data preparation tools vendor, with awards from leading analysts such as Dresner Advisory Services, Bloor Research, and Gartner, Inc. Trifacta has revolutionized the ease of self-service analytics. Below, we’ve listed some of Trifacta’s core functionality that we find essential for any modern self-service data prep technology:

• Interactive Exploration: Trifacta’s self-service data preparation tools  presents visual representations of the data based upon its content in the most compelling representation. Detailed visual representations allow for deeper data exploration, providing an automatic understanding of the data at its most granular level.
• Predictive Transformation: Every click, drag or select over the visual representations in Trifacta leads to a prediction—the self-service data prep tool intelligently assesses the data at hand to recommend a ranked list of suggested transformations for users to evaluate or edit. Unlike any other self-service data prep experience, Trifacta empowers non-technical users with intelligent, agile data wrangling, which ultimately produces a more accurate output.
• Intelligent Execution: Every transformation automatically compiles down into the appropriate processing framework, whether that’s MapReduce, Spark, or our own single-node execution for smaller data sets. Users can expect best-fit execution based upon the scale of their data and types of transformations for unrivaled performance.
• Collaborative Data Governance: To meet the growing data governance requirements of modern IT departments, Trifacta’s self-service data preparation technology provides support for collaborative security, access, data lineage and metadata.