Best practices in analytics and information insights

Based on our experience, we would like to the following best practices in this area:

• Analytics is a journey and not a destination. One has to keep on optimizing evolving from the existing methods of seeking, consuming, and acting upon data.
• It's going to be rare to find just one solution to all the information needs; hence, one must choose from the best-of-breed choices. 
• Leverage financial reporting or management reporting for all kinds of financial insights for an enterprise.
• Leverage Excel for all one-time and quick end user-based reporting.
• Leverage Power BI for all interactive visualizations and dash boarding.
• Leverage SSRS for the printing of all documents and for day-to-day operational needs.
• Leverage mobile apps for all actionable needs across devices and platforms in a mobile-natural way.
• Leverage Cortana analytics and Azure Machine Learning for all information actions and predictions using algorithms.

The world of analytics is fascinating...