elruso.com Blog » Enterpreneurship http://elruso.com/blog Evgueni Pervago writing about Web 2.0 and technology in general Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:54:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Fun interface to boring data as a business? http://elruso.com/blog/2006/06/01/fun-interface-to-boring-data-as-a-business/ http://elruso.com/blog/2006/06/01/fun-interface-to-boring-data-as-a-business/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:52:08 +0000 Evgueni Pervago http://elruso.com/blog/2006/06/01/fun-interface-to-boring-data-as-a-business/ Juice Analytics has a great post about huge gap in quality and ease-of-use between consumer-oriented reporting interfaces and those typically found in enterprise software. Zach makes the point that the enterprise reporting, besides coming last in the development process, usually puts raw data above insights and values quantity over quality.

Doug McClure wonders whether this represents an underserved business niche for some new start-up explore. I’d say hell, yes!

Presenting information has a lot of know-how and it’s definitely transferable. It doesn’t matter whether you’re displaying sales of widgets or inventory of beef cows, time series is still a time series and the thing people making decision want to know is the same. It’s the “so what” or “why do I care”. And typical enterprise reporting interface sucks at doing that.

One could easily imagine a start-up staffed with people who know how to extract the “so what” from a data dump, people with interface design skills and yes, some graphic designers to make looking at it all much less a chore.

Any takers?

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  1. Do it with less people and less time. Comment: I work in consulting and I’ve seen what teams of 3-4 smart people can accomplish in 3 months that teams of 50 wouldn’t dream of finishing in five years.
  2. Ship with less features and abstractions. Comment: This will work when feature grids disappear and reviews will start rating simplicity higher than feature list.
  3. Use less money, use your own money (harder to spend). Comment: Great advice, but it assumes (mostly correctly) more money = more spending. However sometimes more capital is a good thing.

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