10/90 Rule

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The 10/90 rule is about how a company should invest into the web analytics department in order to obtain the maximum output and costumer satisfaction. As the law states a company should invest 10% on the web analytical tools and the other 90% on the skilled persons and experts to do the analysis by using the analytical tools. Basically, it says that the budget should be divided as 10% for the analytics tool, and 90% for the actual, thinking analysts. People and brain power trumps data gathering, and immensely important in making sense of all the gibberish. The point is that data interpretation should be the focus, because it is important to read the numbers and a skilled analyst is the only source to extract out the desired information from …show more content…

The web analytic has evolved in massive way in recent past, because of which the companies have to deal with quantitative data, qualitative data, competitive intelligence marketing trends costumer behavior and many more, and to deal with these issues a company need a proper skilled analyst with the correct power of analytical tool. Now consider a situation that a company has invested a huge amount of money acquiring the most advance analytical tool and hired a very expensive web analytical contractor to set up the tackling strategy and utilized the ability of an in-house developer to implement the tool. But due to some reason the contractor has left and the in-house developer has been moved to some other project and the company is left with huge undefined numbers unanswered business queries and with one or two analysts. This is the best situation to use the 10/90 rule, according to which the company should have invested 10% on a web analytical tool (Omniture, Coremetrices etc.) and rest 90% should be spending on the people to analyse the numbers and on a team of web analysts to analyze and gain valuable

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