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DashboardFox
5000fish
Dashboards, codeless reporting, interactive data visualizations, data level security, mobile access, scheduled reports, embedding, sharing via link, and more. DashboardFox is a dashboard and data visualization solution designed for business users with a no-subscription pricing model. Pay once and you own the software for life. DashboardFox is self-hosted, install on your own server, behind your firewall. Looking for Cloud BI? We offer managed hosting services, but you still retain ownership of your DashboardFox licenses and data. DashboardFox allows your users to drill-down and interact with live data visualizations via dashboards and reports. Business users can create new visualization in a codeless report builder without needing a technical pedigree. An alternative to Tableau, Sisense, Looker, Domo, Qlik, Crystal Reports, and others.
Starting Price: $395 one-time payment -
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Toucan Toco
Toucan Toco
Data Stories for non-technicals. Get simple answers to fundamental questions. Toucan is the market leader in communicating insights to non-technical business decision-makers. We empower them with simple but comprehensive reporting, data visualization and data analysis applications meant for all your employees. Use our platform to easily design and deploy an impactful data application as a team. Within 2 hours and without any specialists skills. We also provide Embedded Analytics features. Build your analytics in days, Iterate in minutes, Distribute in a click.
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PBRS Power BI Reports Distribution
ChristianSteven Software
PBRSâ„¢ (Power BI Reports Scheduler) saves time and money by making it easy to automate the filtering, distribution & delivery of Power BI Reports & Dashboards. Simply define single or packages of Power BI reports, schedule, run them automatically, and send the reports to print, fax, folder, FTP, SMS, Dropbox, SharePoint, Slack & email in a number of standard formats including Excel, Excel Data Only, CSV, MS Word, PDF, Powerpoint, HTML and more. Includes SSRS report scheduling, plus Data Driven subscriptions & scheduling for both SSRS and Power BI.
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Smartlook
Smartlook
Smartlook is a qualitative analytics solution for websites and mobile apps helping over 300,000 businesses of all sizes and industries answer the "whys" behind their users' actions. Eliminate the guesswork and discover real, actionable reasons. With a unique feature set, Smartlook finally gives you a way to understand user behavior at the micro level. Always-on visitor recordings show you what every last visitor does on your website or app, while automatic event tracking lets you know how (and how often) your visitors do specific things. You can then build conversion funnels to see your conversion rates as well as uncover why people are churning. Heatmaps for websites give you mass data about where most people click, scroll, hover, and otherwise interact with your pages. Ranked within the Top 100 Software Products in the 2019 G2 Crowd Awards, Smartlook services customers like O2, Miele, Hyundai, and Kiwi.com. It can also record games developed in the Unity engine.
Starting Price: $31 per month -
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InfinCE
Fingent
InfinCE is an all-in-one collaboration platform that redefines the enterprise cloud by bringing together all the IT resources needed for an organization and its workforce to operate from anywhere. InfinCE offers customizable dashboards with smart tiles for data visualization, a full complement of collaboration apps and productivity tools, and a curated business app marketplace. It also lets business owners control their information assets through a single admin panel, with minimal effort. The platform also offers customizable websites, business emails, a company-branded mobile app, and more, delivering a competitive edge to business users. InfinCE is a flagship product of Fingent, a global IT company providing strategic IT business solutions and services for complex business problems.
Starting Price: $5 per user per month -
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Hyperproof
Hyperproof
Hyperproof makes building out and managing your information security frameworks easy by automating repetitive compliance operation tasks so your team can focus on the bigger things. The Hyperproof solution also offers powerful collaboration features that make it easy for your team to coordinate efforts, collect evidence, and work directly with auditors in a single interface. Gone are the days of uncertainty around audit preparation and compliance management process. With Hyperproof you get a holistic view of your compliance programs with progress tracking, program health monitoring, and risk management.
Starting Price: $800 per month -
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Allvue
Allvue Systems
Allvue Systems is a leading provider of investment management solutions for fund managers, investors, and administrators in the alternative investments industry. We offer innovative, configurable investment software that eliminates the barriers between systems, information, and people, optimizing decision making and streamlining processes to meet investor needs across private debt, private equity, and other alternative asset classes.
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Statgraphics
Statgraphics Technologies
Control your data, extend your reach, improve your processes, grow your revenue. That’s the Statgraphics proposition. But it’s more than that. Statgraphics gets you there with the greatest of ease! Our intuitive interface is unparalleled in power and sophistication matched with simplicity of use. With greatly expanded ability to process millions of rows of data, 260 advanced procedures, an R interface and so much more, our new version, Statgraphics 18® has all that you need to succeed. The current business environment demands reliance on data science to progress. You owe it to your business to take a look. Statgraphics was the first statistical software program adapted for the PC, the first to introduce integration of graphics into every statistical procedure, and the originator of point-by-point assistance tools and countless other groundbreaking features to simplify your tasks. While others were busy playing catch up, Statgraphics led the pack in providing pioneering advances.
Starting Price: $765 per year -
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Repsly
Repsly
Repsly’s retail execution platform empowers CPG field teams to improve field sales performance, merchandising execution, and promotion compliance by connecting them with the data and tools they need to work more intelligently in their accounts. Repsly’s configurable platform equips field teams with solutions for scheduling, ordering, data collection, time and mileage tracking, sales performance reporting, and more. But what makes us truly unique is our approach to data: The Repsly platform combines data on shelf-level execution, team activity, and sales velocity to help field teams make smarter decisions that maximize their impact. Informed by over a decade of experience helping CPG teams drive smarter execution in the field, today Repsly users complete more than 5 million in-store activities every month in 80 countries around the world.
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NapoleonCat
Napoleon
Social media engagement, scheduling, automation, reporting, and analytics, all in one place. NapoleonCat is an advanced social media management platform that helps businesses from 70+ countries across the World in managing profiles from multiple social platforms: Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Google My Business. With NapoleonCat, small and medium businesses, agencies, and eCommerce sellers can streamline social communications, improve their response rates, and analyze their performance - all in one user-friendly dashboard. NapoleonCat is used by global organizations such as Avon, Allianz, Sony, WWF, and the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment. NapoleonCat is an official Facebook Marketing Partner.
Starting Price: $21.00/month -
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SEMrush
SEMrush
SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that ensures businesses get measurable results from online marketing. Trusted by more than 4,000,000 marketing professionals, SEMrush offers insights and solutions for companies in any industry to build, manage, and measure campaigns across all marketing channels. With 30 tools for search, content, social media and market research in the platform, data for more than 140 countries, seamless integration with Google and task management platforms, SEMrush is now a must-have solution for all companies who are serious about online.
Starting Price: $99.95/month -
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Esper
Esper
Before Esper, organizations would rely on outdated solutions such as Mobile Device Management (MDM) to manage their device fleets. However, these solutions were not designed to handle single-purpose Android device use cases, which meant that companies were potentially exposing themselves to an increased security risk, high operational overhead, and poor customer experiences. Esper goes beyond traditional MDM with an end-to-end solution for single-purpose Android devices, helping you configure, deploy, and manage your entire device fleet. Esper is the first solution to combine custom OS, enhanced firmware, a complete Android DevOps toolchain, and endpoint detection and response into one offering. Getting started is easy - simply sign up for our starter plan and provision a device to start experiencing the power of our platform.
Starting Price: Free forever for up to 100 devices -
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DC-E DigitalClone for Engineering
Sentient Science Corporation
DigitalClone® for Engineering is the world's only gearbox reliability prediction solution integrating multiple scales of analysis in a single software package. In addition to modeling and analysis capabilities at the gearbox and gear/bearing levels, DC-E is the only solution available that models fatigue life based on detailed, physics-based models of the material microstructure (US Patent 10474772B2). DC-E enables construction of a gearbox digital twin with high value across all stages of the lifecycle of the physical asset - from design and manufacturing optimization to component supplier selection to failure root cause analysis to condition-based maintenance and to prognostics. This computational environment drives down the time and cost to bring new designs to the market and to sustain them over time.
Starting Price: Upon request -
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Pillir EdgeReady Cloud
Pillir
EdgeReady Cloud is a low code rapid application development platform that is cloud-native and enables the creation of resilient, always-available, self-managing (EdgeReady) applications that work with or without connectivity. EdgeReady Cloud, a low code RAD solution by Pillir, was created with the sole purpose of allowing companies to focus more on innovation and less on keeping the lights on - naturally driving down TCO and increasing ROI through the power of low code rapid application development for complex business systems. EdgeReady Cloud provides low code, rapid application development that allows companies of all sizes, in any industry, to enhance speed to market and support innovation with custom-built, low code applications. EdgeReady Cloud has pre-built integrations for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and other ERP and database systems. Most customers leverage EdgeReady Cloud for modernization and the digital transformation of complex business systems.
Starting Price: $999.00/month -
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Smart Inventory Planning & Optimization
Smart Software
Smart Software is a leading provider of demand planning, inventory optimization and supply chain analytics solutions headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1984 Smart has helped thousands of customers plan for future demand utilizing industry-leading statistical analytics. Smart Inventory Planning & Optimization (IP&O) is the company’s next generation suite of native web applications, helping inventory carrying organizations reduce inventory, improve service levels and streamline Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning. Smart IP&O, hosted on Amazon Web Services, is a Digital Supply Chain Platform driving three applications: demand planning, inventory optimization, and dashboard reporting. Smart IP&O functions as a transparent extension of our customers’ ERP systems of choice, receiving daily transaction data and returning forecasts and inventory policy values to drive replenishment and production planning.
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Imatag
IMATAG
IMATAG protects your visual content online, such as product images, brand visuals, licensed content, or sensitive files. It comes in two flavours: - IMATAG LEAKS, the first online solution for the identification of photo or video leaks, - and IMATAG MONITOR, the most reliable visual search solution to track the use of your content on the internet. How it works: The software discreetly places an imperceptible identifier at the pixel level of images or videos. This invisible watermark allows to identify your content on the web regardless if it has been resized, cropped or trimmed, posted on social media or copied via a screenshot. Used as a tracker, it is also able to trace the origin of a leak. Supports images (photos, renders, design), videos, and PDF. Available as SaaS via Web UI or API, or on premise software.
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Incorta
Incorta
Direct is the shortest path from data to insight. Incorta empowers everyone in your business with a true self-service data experience and breakthrough performance for better decisions and incredible results. What if you could bypass fragile ETL and expensive data warehouses, and deliver data projects in days, instead of weeks or months? Our direct approach to analytics delivers true self-service in the cloud or on-premises with agility and performance. Incorta is used by the world’s largest brands to succeed where other analytics solutions fail. Across multiple industries and lines of business, we boast connectors and pre-built solutions for your enterprise applications and technologies. Game-changing innovation and customer success happen through Incorta’s partners including Microsoft, AWS, eCapital, and Wipro. Explore or join our thriving partner ecosystem.
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Noction Flow Analyzer (NFA)
Noction
Noction Flow Analyzer (NFA) is a network analytics, monitoring, and alerting tool capable of ingesting NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, NetStream, and BGP data. The NetFlow analyzer enables engineers to optimize their networks and applications performance, control bandwidth utilization, do the proper network capacity planning, perform detailed BGP peering analysis, improve security, and minimize network incidents response time.
Starting Price: $299/month -
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FlowWright
IPS
Business Process Management Software (BPMS) & BPM Workflow Automation Tool. Companies need workflow, forms, compliance, and automation routing support. Our low-code options make creating + editing workflows simple. Our best-in-class forms capabilities, make it possible to rapidly build forms, forms logic, and workflows for forms-driven workflow processes. Companies have many existing systems in place that need to work with each other. Our business process integrations across systems are loosely-coupled + intelligently integrated. When you use FlowWright to automate your business, you gain access to standard metrics and metrics that you define. BPM analytics are a key part of any BPM workflow management software solution. FlowWright can be deployed as a cloud solution or deployed in an on-premise or .NET hosted environment (including AWS and Azure). It was built in .NET Foundation C# code and all tools are fully browser-based, requiring no plug-ins.
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Windward Core
Windward Studios, Inc.
In as little as 11 lines of code you can extend your new or existing applications with the ability to generate documents, eliminating the need to “reinvent the wheel� and allowing you to focus on building the Core features of you application. Windward Designer offers free-form control over your templates, so stop accepting mediocre results and create your templates exactly the way you envision them. The only limit is your imagination! The best part? Our Designer is an add-in to Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint), and output to universal formats like HTML or PDF.
Starting Price: $220 per month -
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Semarchy xDM
Semarchy
Use xDM platform to experience the Intelligent Data Hubâ„¢. Benefit from a full set of features to build production-ready Master Data Management (MDM), Reference Data Management (RDM), Application Data Management (ADM), Data Quality, and Data Governance operational and analytical applications.
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PSIcapture
PSIGEN Software, Inc.
Turn documents, databases and email data into actionable information. PSIcapture does much more than just convert documents from paper to digital format. It’s advanced, automated document capture and data extraction designed to meet all the needs of any organization. Organizations use an array of scanning devices and document management applications to meet their needs, which are subject to change over time. PSIcapture is unique in its ability to integrate with any scanning device and route information to more than 60 ECM systems. No matter the size and scope of an organization, whether it has 10 employees in one office or 500 scattered across several locations, PSIcapture will make document processes easy and efficient. Competitively priced, truly scalable and uniquely versatile, PSIcapture is the ideal document capture solution. A single capture platform designed to meet all the needs of an organization.
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Raima Database Manager (RDM)
Raima
Raima Database Manager is an embedded in-memory database for IoT and Edge devices. It is an extremely powerful, lightweight and secure RDBMS . Field tested by over 20 000 developers worldwide and has more than 25 000 000 deployments.
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SPC-PC IV Explorer
Quality America
SPC-PC IV Explorer is a leading Statistical Process Control (SPC) Software package for quality assurance, capability evaluations, & streamlined process data management and reporting: -Manage process data with cascading folders grouped by customer, department, product, etc. -Password-protected concurrent-use licensing controls access to features -Process Monitor charts provide dashboard view of KPI -Quickly analyze keyboard data, or data imported or linked from Excel or other ODBC sources such as SAP, ERP, or LIMS -Data entry via electronic gaging supported in optional Work Set view -Customized reports exported to Word with charts, statistics, raw data or other info as needed -Show stratification patterns using symbol shape/color, or filter data using traceability fields. -Optional Web SPC interface for reporting, data entry & process monitoring throughout your supply chain with no local installation -Optional Calibration Management, or purchase separately as QA-Calibrate
Starting Price: $995.00/one-time/user -
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Consentmanager.net
Jaohawi AB
Clients that use the ConsentManager.net CMP usually achieve higher Acceptance-Rates and lower Bounce-Rates than with other solutions. This is really important for you: Only with a high acceptance-rate you can use the full potential of your website (e.g. sell the most advertising). And only if the bounce-rate is low you can make full use of your visitors. ConsentManager.net is the only solution that offers a full overview on what is happening on your website and how your visitors react and interact with the consent layer. Our GDPR Consent Platform is the only solution that allows you to test multiple designs of the consent layer simultaneously and automatically optimize on the design that shows the best results. New Feature: Full support for CCPA including explicit notice, "Do not sell my personal data"-Link, Geo-targeting and IAB CCPA Compliance Framework (USP/LSPA). ConsentManager.net now offers a Cookie-Free consent feature.
Starting Price: €50 per month
What is Business Intelligence Software?
BI, or business intelligence combines specific services and software to turn data into intelligence capable of providing information regarding the tactical business decisions and strategies of a business. The BI tools first access, then analyze the current analytical findings and data sets in graphs, reports, maps, charts, dashboards and summaries. This provides critical details regarding the state of the business.
The Differences Between BA and BI
Business intelligence is also referred to as descriptive analysis because it describes either a current or past state. Instead of telling the business what to do, it states what is occurring. When this definition is compared to BA, or business analytics, a process assisted by technology so data can be analyzed by software to make predictions about what could happen depending on the approach used, the difference is clear. This is the reason BA is often called advanced analytics.
The Specifics of Business Intelligence
Despite the fact BI will not tell a business what needs to be done, or what will occur if specific actions are taken, BI is about a lot more than just generating reports. BI provides the means for business to derive insights and understand current trends by examining data. Data is essential for many individuals to perform their jobs functions better. The tools of business intelligence take people's efforts and streamline them. When a person conducts a search concerning merge and query data because they need specific information, BI will help them make a much better decision for their business.
A good example is a business wanting to have better management regarding their supply chain. BI has the capabilities to figure out exactly where the delays are occurring, and examine all the variables within the shipping process. Business intelligence can be used by the company to figure out which products are most often delayed, and what type of transportation is generally responsible for creating the delay. This will enable the business to make a better situation by eliminating the delay.
BI has the potential to go far beyond the metrics of ordinary business. Business intelligence can reduce the costs and improve the sales of the business. BI tools are effectively being used to examine a wide variety of data points. A good example would be a college. BI can be used to examine everything from the performance of the students to the attendance rates. This data can increase the number of students who graduate from high school, and improve the learning quality of the students. Business intelligence is equally effective regardless of the specific field of the company.
The Tools for Business Intelligence
There are a lot of vendors currently offering BI tools to the modern business. In 2017, there were approximately two dozen business intelligence tools to choose amongst. The leading vendors were Tableau, Microsoft and Qlik, although the tools were additionally available through Zoomdata, Sisense and Information Builders.
There are a lot of different factors a business considers prior to choosing their BI platform. This decision is usually based on the operations complexity and size, and the type of technology the business is using. This may be SAP, SAS, Oracle, or IBM, and BI tools are offered through all of these. The business must look at all the tools available, and base their decision on what would work best for their specific business needs.
Business Intelligence in Action
The IT professionals have generally been the main users of business intelligence applications. Since the tools for BI have changed and evolved, they have become much more user-friendly and intuitive. This makes it easier for a large quantity of users throughout all different types of organizational domains to successfully use these tools. There are essentially two different types of BI. The first is considered the more classic or traditional BI. This is where reports are generated using the in-house transactional data by the IT professionals. The second type of BI is more modern, and data can be analyzed much faster due to the interaction between the intuitive, agile systems and the business users.
Most of the organizations will choose the classic BI for specific areas of reporting including financial or regulatory reports. This is because the accuracy factor is critical, and the data sets and questions used are both predictable and standard. The more modern BI tools are generally used by organizations when new insight is required by the users. This can be for marketing events, or an event with a quickly changing dynamic. In these instances, the speed is considered far more valuable than the data being 100 percent correct.
Having access to effective business intelligence is crucial when strategic business decisions must be made. Unfortunately, there are a lot of businesses struggling to make efficient business intelligence decisions. This is due to tactical errors, poor data practices and more. If a business is failing at their strategic decisions, the first step is understanding why.
Self-Service BI is on The Rise
The software vendors have risen to the demand of the businesses for multiple capabilities. The modern and classic BI, and the predictive and descriptive have been re-engineered. The products now have platforms with multiple functionalities. All of the vendors have been doing some retooling so the needs of the business can be successfully met. From the perspective of the business owners, not all business users had a reporting function or access to IT support. These businesses have started acquiring the printing and technology necessary to fulfill these important needs.
Many workplaces and organizations still require IT professionals because their roles are vital. In a lot of these situations, business users are using self-service BI enabled by the IT team. The biggest difference is, IT is responsible for setting up and managing the enablement, governance and policies around the data. IT additionally accesses the data, and makes certain the BI tools are providing the insights necessary for the business by working with the users on a consistent basis. Just like with the tools for BI, there are a wide variety of self-service tools available for business intelligence.
The Value of Business Intelligence
Despite all the current talk regarding advanced analytics, big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, BI has a lot of relevance for numerous reasons. According to the experts, there are still a lot of organizations struggling with how to manage their data, and obtain the full potential from their BI tools. This has resulted in many businesses having areas where the capabilities of BI are being implemented instead of the platform encompassing the entire business.
There may be one BI tool being used by an executive to provide vendor performance, and an executive dashboard providing information such as the prices according to the region. These organizations need to place their focus on fine-tuning in order to achieve a maximum effect from their BI initiatives. Once this has been accomplished, the business can start to use analytics capabilities that are much more advanced. This is one of the predominant reasons for the current growth of BI tools in the market. Organizations are trying to meet the growing demand by adding capabilities across a wide range of areas.
According to a report ascertained in January of 2016, research done in the field of advisory and global technology predicted the global market for business intelligence would show a ten percent increase in the annual rate of growth by the year 2020. This research considered the increasing usage of data analytics, and data implementation and availability of cloud business intelligence as the markets three major driving factors.
The second point was businesses will always need to have a good understanding of the current state and past events. This is why the experts believe that as advanced analytics are used more by businesses to predict the future, one of their most important investments will be in their BI operations. Both aspects are necessary because it is critical the business understands what is happening. If there is no knowledge of the current state of the business, it will be impossible to determine what will occur in the future. This ensures capabilities of BI will still be necessary to organizations in the future. As analytic functions continue to advance, and more capabilities continue to be added, these analyses will need to be validated.
BI tools cannot be simply placed into a black box, and the reports ignored. If a business simply increases their inventory or changes their prices this will result in the BI tools being given far too much in the way of trust. Everything must be checked, and people can be kept in the loop with the use of BI tools.
The Future of BI
Many individuals are certain another wave of disruption will be part of the future. This is referred to as augmented analytics by the research firms. This is when software will have the capability of guiding the users concerning their data queries because the software will have machine learning baked right into it. This will result in a highly intelligent combination of analytics and BI.
The software packages will contain combinations designed to increase the power of each function. This will provide an extreme value to the business using this software. For example, the reports from the previous year's sales will be looked at with BI, but next year's sales will be predicted according to business analytics. If a what if capability was added, and applications were developed as all inclusive instead of requiring multiple platforms, a single application would be capable of providing all of the different functions.
This would establish a system capable of delivering recommendations with higher values, and the decision maker would become more accurate and have more power. BI is going to retain its value, but organizations must do more than adopt BI, they must begin using advanced analytics also.
The prediction is by the year 2020, businesses will be offering their users access to external and internal data through a curated catalogue. This data will provide double the value received from investments in analytics. The need for reporting will remain, but this alone will not be sufficient. Any organization doing nothing but reporting has already fallen behind. The reporting must be both agile and smart or the user will become a laggard.