“Splunk is an established tool to measure anything in all areas of the business. NOT just IT. We must consider it as we look at the need for business intelligence measuring across the business.” – Jonathan Merrill @ LANVERA, June 16, 2017
Splunk was born in 2003 being a disrupting tool set for measuring machine data, easily and accessible. My colleagues ysed to call it the Google of log data. At first, it’s focus was the easy target, IT. Today, it’targeting all areas of the business with demos showing sales & marketing measuring, facilities, business operations, even finance. Indeed, it’s come along way.
Sitting in our product demo, it’s clear this tool has surpassed IT. Dashboards, reporting, alerting. How many times this tool could have redefined the war room experience versus the man hours waste of silo’d IT?
My last thought goes to the hundreds of hours spent data gathering for reporting KPI. Tirelessly pulling manual data from multiple sources for TPS purposes. This tool could have replaced all those spreadsheets for all those powerpoints in minutes.
The power of BI.
PS. Yes, I use Splunk. I dump my Unifi network syslogs into Splunk using the free version. I track firewall threats geographically and email reports weekly. Now if I could just figure how to track my kids usage…
\\ JMM