Operationalization: From 1 to 1000s of Models in Production
The ability to efficiently operationalize data projects is what separates the average company from the truly data-powered one.
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SELF-SERVICE ANALYTICS (SSA) sɛlf sərvəs ænəlɪtɪks | (n)
The system by which line-of-business professionals or analysts can access and work with data to generate insights – predictive or not – and data visualization with little direct support from data scientists, IT, or larger data team (though the SSA platform itself should be supported by these personas).
Any company that wants to make any impactful change – whether that’s decreasing costs or risks, increasing revenue, creating innovative new products, or making employees and the organization more efficient overall – has the opportunity to do so using today’s not-so-secret weapon: data. More specifically, the massive amounts of data available can be used to gain insights at scale vis-à-vis processes like reuse and automation.
This is easier said than done – transformation at this level doesn’t simply mean slapping data on top of existing processes; it involves fundamental organizational change, weaving data into the fabric of the company. By integrating SSA into their core business strategy, innovative data companies can build self-service systems that serve their specific needs and requirements and that allow them to use real-time data at scale to make better and faster decisions throughout the organization.
SSA empowers organizations to:
It’s not uncommon for organizations to implement only SSA and stop there. This is perhaps the result of several years back (circa 2015) where industry leaders and analysts thought that business intelligence (BI) platforms were the be-all and end-all of data-driven transformation.
In fact, in order to become a truly data-powered company and deliver actionable business value from data, companies need operationalization (o16n) as well as SSA. Operationalization simply means getting advanced AI and data projects out of the lab and into a production environment where there is real, business impact, thus aligning them with actual business value.
Despite their seeming opposition, SSA and o16n actually drive each other forward and work best when using a common platform for data governance and communication, built on a philosophy of breaking down silos to work with data across teams throughout the enterprise.
Leading AI-powered businesses use Dataiku to power self-service analytics while also ensuring the operationalization of machine learning models in production. Here are some common ways these enterprises structure their SSA and/or o16n efforts:
GE Aviation's self-service system allows them to use real-time data at scale to make better and faster decisions throughout the organization.
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