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Boost Visual Analytics Dashboard User Experience with Parameters

Advanced analytics, business intelligence (BI), and the data that drives them are largely unused by the organizations that invest heavily in their promise. Industry insiders and analysts took notice of these trends and have reported on them regularly in recent years. According to Gartner, 97 percent of organizational data goes unused, and 87 percent of organizations have low levels of BI and advanced analytical maturity.

Many factors contribute to these challenges, and we're not going to pretend that we know them all or that there's an easy fix. Yet, our users have shown us that enhanced usability and a focused approach to analytics dashboard software can improve application stickiness.

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6 Benefits of Adopting a Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solution

A Managed File Transfer solution to move large volumes of unstructured data, differs from a plain File Transfer tool, like the world-famous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client/server combination. It does this by offering technical capabilities that earned it the prefix “Managed.” These capabilities include:

  • Guaranteed delivery that leverages ‘retry’ and ‘resume’ options to ensure the successful delivery of files and recovery from failed transfers.
  • File integrity to certify that the file was not altered accidentally or voluntarily (think “man-in-the-middle”) during its transit.
  • Non-repudiation or the ability to prove that a file was sent by one party to another by using digital signatures for each participant.
  • Automation of file transfer-related activities and business processes, both pre- and post-transfer, and on success or error.
  • End-to-end reporting on file transfers. Notification of successful file transfers (acknowledgment) all the way to the sending business applications.
  • Global visibility and auditability on administrative (configuration) and runtime (transfer) operations.
  • End-to-end security for data-in-transit and at-rest, with support for PKI.

All these criteria are characteristics of a Managed File Transfer solution and represented the boxes that vendors had to check during a Request for Proposal (RFP) processes back in the early days. Over time, the technologies and industry requirements (especially around compliance and risk management) have evolved, putting more pressure on the MFT vendors to come up with new points of differentiation. Here are six of those benefits to keep in mind when adopting a digitalized Managed File Transfer solution.