It is an undeniable fact that there is an increasing level of awareness of the benefits of adopting a more analytical approach and a recognition that analytics play a major role in better decision making. A new analytics culture is emerging on the foundation of access to lots of data, an unconventional spirit towards exploring information and new techniques & scalable computing power. Like every change in the world and progress towards adoption of innovative cultures, there are challenges and approaches. This session enlists some of these challenges & approaches and discusses how newer technologies in the space of data visualization and analytical modelling converge the capabilities to provide approachable analytics helping organizations put analytics in action.