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Harry Dix
Sr. Content Manager
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As Sr. Content Manager at GoodData, Harry is responsible for all things content marketing and design. While his expertise lie in short-form copy and messaging, he’s been known to write a pretty good business-focused article or two. He possesses 15+ years of experience in freelance writing and business development. When he’s not working, he splits his time between family and bicycles.
About
As Sr. Content Manager at GoodData, Harry is responsible for all things content marketing and design. While his expertise lie in short-form copy and messaging, he’s been known to write a pretty good business-focused article or two. He possesses 15+ years of experience in freelance writing and business development. When he’s not working, he splits his time between family and bicycles.
Latest from Harry
Self-Service Analytics: What, Why, and How?
Summary This article explores what self-service analytics (also known as self-service business intelligence) really means for organizations. It explains how giving non-technical teams direct access to data empowers faster, more informed decisions while...
The 12 Days of Christmas: Data Edition
While we're sure you're enjoying a much-deserved break from all things business, we knew you simply couldn't resist one last data-related read for the year. And in the spirit of the Holiday season, we found inspiration in a Christmas classic! One...
Data Monetization: 8 Things You Should Know
Summary This article explains what data monetization is and why it matters for modern businesses. It shows how companies can create value from their data in different ways, from improving internal operations to selling insights or embedding analytics into...
21 Customer Service KPIs You Need to Track
Summary Strong customer service depends on clear, measurable insights. Performance indicators help teams understand how well they are meeting customer needs, how efficiently they are resolving issues, and how satisfied customers are with the support they...
FlexCache by GoodData: Serving Your Data as Smoothly as Your Morning Brew
Imagine walking into your favorite coffee shop during a hectic morning rush. Amidst the crowd, there's the comforting feeling of knowing that as soon as you step in, your preferred cup is being brewed, ready to be served instantly. Here at GoodData, this...
5 Common Analytics Challenges for Snowflake Users
There are a plethora of tools and platforms to choose from when it comes to building dashboards with Snowflake data. For building interactive analytics apps with Snowflake, there is GoodData. GoodData and Snowflake make an excellent combination for...
3 Benefits of Scheduling Reports in GoodData
In a recent article, we discussed the insight automation updates GoodData launched and how to use them. Now our focus is on how these updates directly benefit you because this update was crafted with you in mind. So, without further ado, let's dive into...
Updates in GoodData: Report and Dashboard Sharing via Email
Did someone say more customization and sharing capabilities while using embedded analytics? Well, our users asked, and we answered! GoodData released updates to support the sharing of pertinent data through the ability to send reports or dashboards via...
Choosing the Right BI Tool: 15 Questions and Answers
We recently held a webinar that presented how to choose the right BI tool for your business. If you didn’t get a chance to attend or want to take another look, you can watch it here. Some of the areas we covered included how to: Better understand your use...
To Build or Buy Analytics: 8 Questions and Answers
We recently held a webinar to explore whether it is better to build or buy a data analytics solution. We discussed the pros and cons of each approach, including the option to both build and buy a solution. If you missed the webinar or want to rewatch it,...
How to Boost E-Commerce Sales With Data Analytics
Recent events have accelerated consumer demand and transformed the global e-commerce sector — including a major boom in overall market size. Previously, e-commerce mostly encompassed smaller online shops connected to brick-and-mortar stores. Today, it’s a...
10 Questions From Our Interactive Data Experience Webinar
We recently held a webinar demonstrating how to build an interactive data experience. If you missed the webinar, or want to take another look, you can watch it here. Some of the areas we covered included: Dashboard and visualization best practices:...
MAQL: Composable, Reusable Analytics Queries
Whether you’re embedding analytics into an application or portal, or striving to deliver seamless analytics across multiple tools and consumers, one of the most important aspects is consistency; both in providing a consistent, user-friendly analytics...
9 Questions and Answers From Our Location Insights Webinar
We were recently joined by CleverMaps, the location intelligence platform, to demonstrate how to seamlessly integrate location intelligence into your data stack. Some of the areas we covered included: What location intelligence is and why it’s needed. The...
4 Benefits of AI for Insurance Analytics
The data-rich nature of insurance organizations makes harnessing the power of analytics a no-brainer which, until recently, has been overlooked by many insurers. However, with the industry’s recent shift to a more customer-oriented focus, along with the...
10 Key questions and answers from our headless BI webinar
We recently held a webinar introducing you to headless BI, focusing on how it can be achieved through cloud-native API-first analytics. If you missed the webinar, or want to take another look, you can watch it here. As with all our webinars, we allocated...
5 points to consider when building or buying analytics
A common question many organizations face, when it comes to rolling out analytics, be it organization-wide or embedded into a software product, is that of deciding whether to build in-house or buy off-the-shelf. There are, of course, pros and cons to both...
3 Benefits of AI in Financial Services
Automation and AI are often feared as an imminent replacement for humans in multiple sectors, finance included. And, while there are areas where specific roles could become redundant in the future, more often than not, AI applications can be used to...
15 Key Questions to Ask any Embedded Analytics Vendor
The decision of which embedded analytics solution to acquire is of strategic and financial importance to your organization, having a direct impact on business performance as well as employee or customer happiness. However, the field of embedded analytics...
How to monetize your data in 6 steps
The impact of analytics is always expanding. In just a few years, companies that once didn’t know what to do with the data they collected about their customers are now utilizing that data to build and deliver customer-facing embedded analytics offerings...
Key questions from our 'behind the scenes' webinar
In our final technical webinar of 2020, our team of experts gave a behind-the-scenes look at developing a data product. Split into two-parts, the webinar gave an inside look at how to embed analytics directly into your data product. If you missed it, or...
Achieve Better Results With Ranking and Dependant Filters
Particularly for business (non-technical) users, allowing them to see just the information they need is key in aiding efficient decision making and drawing concrete conclusions from the data. Two of our latest feature updates help users to better filter...
