From Chaos to Clarity: Transform Your Data Visualization with Visualization-as-a-Service (VaaS)

We are all familiar with the fable of the five blindfolded men describing an elephant. Irrespective of which version of the story you have heard, the crux always remains the same. Five blindfolded men were asked to describe an elephant just by touching it. Since their sight was limited, they described the elephant based on the certain body parts they touched. They claimed the elephant to be a rope, wall, fan, pillar, and plow-shaped animal. This parable underscores the importance of context and the limitations of perception.

What if we tell you many business executives face similar issues when making data-driven, contextual business decisions?

Many businesses lack effective data visualization tools that can help them contextualize and interpret vast amounts of enterprise data meaningfully and make necessary business decisions. As a result, it leads to more chaos rather than clarity. Even when businesses have the means to visualize their data, the visuals are not coherent or easily understandable, delaying crucial business decisions. Due to fewer industry-standard data models, key performance indicators (KPIs), and persistent dataset gaps, many businesses require assistance creating standard templates. Data lineage and relationships between datasets can be difficult to establish and maintain without proper guidance and support. All these lead to a chaotic environment where businesses struggle to use their enterprise data without easy and comprehensible visualization.

What is Visualization-as-a-Service (VaaS)?

To help businesses transform cluttered data into clear, actionable insights, Tech Mahindra has developed a Visualization-as-a-Service (VaaS) framework on top of the Microsoft Azure platform. The VaaS framework creates a unified schematic model in Microsoft Power BI on the Microsoft Intelligent Data platform that integrates data across systems. On top of this foundational layer, VaaS brings in industry-standard KPIs, process-oriented data models, and predefined report templates to tie different business use cases to the model and semantic layer.

This expedites the development of intuitive dashboards and visuals that offer insights on the fly. Adapting the various industry standards brings high-performance, cost-effective, and business-friendly dashboards. These future-ready dashboards, embedded with GenAI capabilities, can catapult organizations on their data-driven insights journey. VaaS also provides data lineage and relationships that help to produce complete source mapping that aids in root cause and impact analysis.

VaaS, is part of Tech Mahindra's D.A.H.L.I.A Platform (Data Analytics Hub for Large Scale Insights Acceleration), which has multiple Gen AI embedded Data Analytics solution accelerators across data value chain, right from Data Ingestion to Consumption layer that helps to expedite Organization’s journey towards Data Driven Ingestion.

Key Features of the VaaS Framework

VaaS brings in transformational services that help audit and assess the data visualization landscape, to identify and recommend various ways to organize and clean the reporting environment by highlighting similar reports that can be merged along with complete metadata-driven data lineage service, that helps to map the data elements present in the reports to the source system, which in turn enables to perform the root cause and impact analysis for any change management required in the future.

Its pre-built industry-standard KPIs, process-oriented data models, and standard report templates accelerate and standardize the visual layer, effectively aiding in providing intuitive and cross-functional actionable insights.

VaaS infuses GenAI capabilities that enable self-serve BI and ensures that businesses can have all the required insights by interacting with natural language and leaving everything else on the VaaS framework to deliver the insights traversing through all the technical and business metadata. In short, it enhances the ease of access, democratizes insights, and helps organizations to become data-driven.

How VaaS Can Help Businesses

• Faster time-to-market: VaaS offers pre-built industry-standard KPIs, process-oriented data models, and standard report templates. Organizations can use these features to standardize their visual layer and accelerate intuitive and cross-functional actionable insights.
• Single source of truth: VaaS ensures a single source of truth for everyone. It reduces data redundancy, promotes collaboration, and enables users to have self-service capabilities.
• Enhanced report governance: VaaS can connect the dots between data lineage and relationships to help businesses map data elements from reports to the source system. This allows faster root cause and impact analysis.
• Cost-effective operation: VaaS is a cost-effective solution that eliminates the need for businesses to invest in expensive on-premises infrastructure.
• Improving communication: VaaS can bridge the gap between data scientists and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring that everyone in the organization understands the insights derived from data analysis. VaaS makes it easier to create visuals that are not only informative but also engaging and easy to understand.
• Boosting collaboration: VaaS platforms have provisions for intra-organization collaboration so that different teams can work together seamlessly on data visualization projects. This fosters a culture of collaboration and data-driven decision-making across the organization.
• Customization and flexibility: VaaS solutions offer a high degree of customization. This enables businesses to tailor visualizations to their needs and branding and align them with the organization's identity.
• Future-ready: VaaS infuses GenAI capabilities that enable self-service business intelligence. As a result, businesses can easily access insights and democratize them to become data-driven.

Conclusion

As crucial as data is to businesses, visualizing it plays a more significant role. Proper visualization of your organizational data makes charting the current data landscape easier. Together with Microsoft, Tech Mahindra is committed to the smooth digitalization of enterprises. Effective data visualization is a core part of these digitalization projects. Contact us to see how VaaS can improve your business operation and help you uncover previously hidden data. This is your opportunity to tell a compelling, data-driven business transformational story with Tech Mahindra’s VaaS framework.