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Why embedding a legacy BI tool in your app can fail your brand and users? ?? Big launch today Most BI platforms simply aren’t built to let you design experiences tailored to your brand or your users. They give you cookie cutter visuals, a couple of filters, and that’s about it. They’re rigid, inflexible, making even minor tweaks can be a big headache. This leaves you with two suboptimal choices: - Lower your expectations of what you can deliver, resulting in a subpar customer experience. - Build everything in-house, which means developing the whole analytics infrastructure to support that experience — a huge distraction for your engineering teams. At my previous employer, I saw this frustration up close. Teams would often decide to build analytics features themselves because the BI tool just didn’t meet their needs. Designers and product teams needed more control, but they were constantly running up against the BI tool's limits. The legacy BI tools are simply not designed with product flexibility or customization in mind. They package their entire product into a clunky iframe and tell you to have a nice day! Imagine building a sleek, intuitive app only to plug in a BI dashboard that feels completely out of place. This disconnect can be frustrating for users. It limits how you can present insights to them. Flexibility isn’t just nice to have—it’s essential for delivering a seamless user experience. You'll inevitably face such scenarios as your customers' requirements evolve. If you're locked into a legacy BI tool for customer-facing analytics, implementing these changes becomes extremely challenging. ?? At Semaphor, we are changing this! We are built from the ground up to provide modern analytics experience. And now we allow you to bring your own charting library or even custom components, enabling you to?deliver best-in-class analytics for your end users. This opens up a world of possibilities where you can bring any custom tables, visuals and make them interactive with the rest of the dashboard. All it takes is a few lines of code. P.S. The screenshot is a Semaphor dashboard with custom visuals - you can't tell the difference.

Semaphor loves #Retool! It’s excellent for building departmental apps. If you're managing an internal business process with Retool and want to deliver tailored visibility at multiple levels of your organization —where one size doesn't fit all— Semaphor is your friend. You can now deliver personalized analytics and contextual AI experience for each of your of teams within minutes with Semaphor. Check it out ??. Blog: https://lnkd.in/gbyHFWiY

The fastest way to launch analytics in your product is by decoupling analytics from your application code. Why? Because this separation doubles your shipping velocity, allowing you to modify analytics independently — your dashboards can evolve without requiring you to rebuild and redeploy your app. You get two parallel, non-blocking paths for executing your product roadmap. The highly iterative process of analytics can occur independently without involving your core product team. This approach also scales seamlessly as the scope of your product grows. Your product engineers can focus on developing core features, while customer success teams create personalized analytics experiences for clients. If you're are using Next.js to build your product, I have an exciting news for you. ?? You can now launch fully-interactive customer-facing analytics in your product, in less than a day, with just a few lines of code.

Are you winning with your data? Winning with data isn't about having vast amounts at your disposal. It's about winning your customers' hearts and minds through meaningful engagement. Here is the engagement ladder you can climb: Rung 1: Create visibility into the tasks and processes your product helps manage. Your users (and their supervisors) value this ability to analyze trends and behaviors visually. Rung 2: Surface issues and opportunities that go unnoticed when tasks are performed in isolation. Provide contextually relevant insights while your users are in the product. Rung 3: Show how your product is helping customers move along the KPIs they care about — the reason they bought your software — showcasing the business value you deliver. Tie this to the unit cost of operating your software. Rung 4: Package insights from the aggregate use of your software or service — this is your data product. Compare your customers' performance against their peer group. Provide data-driven recommendations to improve scores in specific areas. Offer these insights for a fee and create a new revenue stream. Most importantly, deliver these insights "within" your product. We call this customer-facing analytics. That's how you win with data.

Data isolation is a MUST for multi-tenant SaaS apps. But it can be particularly challenging when you want to deliver customer-facing analytics that combine insights from databases, live APIs, and data lakes. With Semaphor, you can overcome this challenge. You can now apply nuanced security policies at every level, from the connection, table, and column, down to the row level, regardless of the data source, giving you precise control over what your users can see when they log in to your app. Check it out.

?? Introducing Semaphor apps - now you can turn your dashboards into production-grade data apps and securely share them with your teams. Skip the IT hurdles and get your data app into the hands of your users. Rapidly prototype, iterate, and collect feedback in a secure environment. The best part? When you're ready to launch it as a standalone app, you simply push it to your VPS provider with no additional changes.

?? Introducing custom visuals in Semaphor - now you can deliver the most compelling analytics experience in your apps with the freedom to customize every single aspect of your visuals. You can even integrate your own charting library into Semaphor, while still retaining the interactive slice-and-dice experience. If you're developing data apps, this can be a breakthrough for your organization. It can save you a significant amount of time and effort.