The world's largest user survey on the use of software for Business Intelligence "The BI Survey" of the Business Application Research Center (BARC) is in this year's edition, that now more than 50 percent of the company to their employees in the department more freedom in the design of reports and analyzes grant. The former interest in Mobile BI can however to always on.
With
"Self-Service Business Intelligence" is gaining a powerful trend in
the provision and use of business intelligence (BI) software in importance
worldwide. The aim is to make create more than before their own reports and
data analysis for cost and time reasons, end users, instead of this as yet to
apply for IT support. These freedoms can reach so far that end users can build
their own, highly configurable BI applications that link different data
sources. "Of all the trends that the" The BI Survey 14 "shows,
is currently Self-Service BI (SSBI) with" operational BI "by far the
strongest," said Dr. Carsten Bange, CEO and founder of BARC, and Co-
author of the world's largest BI study, the results (see chart). Of the more
than 3000 respondents BI experts explained 55 percent, currently working on
SSBI projects. Another 24 percent plan to begin in the near future.
Rends as 'Collaborative BI' and 'Mobile BI', which received "a lot of attention in the
public debate and in the marketing of the provider, are in practice, however,
far less of an issue for companies," said Bange. Then use currently only
29 percent of respondents with collaborative approaches to BI and only 18
percent of mobile BI solutions.
Mobile Business
Intelligence
Among all BI
trends is specially Mobile BI less and less popular. Step "The number of
companies with related projects in 2012 to five percent (from 8 to 13 percent)
and in the last year by three percent, this year only: So the growth has
already slowed in the third consecutive year at Mobile BI still showed an
increase of two percentage points." Correspondingly, for the second time,
the number of companies like, the plans to introduce mobile BI solutions in the
next twelve months. The reasons for this reluctance are to experience the BARC
analysts, especially in security concerns, the questions about the added value
and the additional investment requires the Mobile BI.
Overall, the
interest in mobile solutions increases but to continue, but there is a lack of
compelling offerings in the market, for example, links the Mobile BI with the
strongest trend "operationalization".
More "Power Users" in the Business Intelligence
Another finding
of "The BI Survey 14" is the increase experienced BI users in
organizations. So now designated 30 percent of respondents as a "Power
User". "So far, the ratio was 80 per cent 'casual users' to 20
percent 'power users'. In the future, we need a much larger group of
experienced users in the company go, "said Wayne Eckerson, co-author
of" The BI Survey 14, "this development. For this fit the observations
that are addressed in the media and in the product announcements of providers
often complex issues such as Big Data, Analytics and Data Science.
About The BI
Survey
The BI Survey is
a global user survey on the use of business intelligence tools. 3244 BI experts
took part in the recent "BI Survey 14". The aim is to make the market
more transparent and for all players. The focus of the detailed online survey
the motives are for the use of business intelligence software, their
applications and user satisfaction with the achievements - including the
assessment of manufacturers and their support. The BI Survey provides a unique
opportunity to compare more than thirty providers based on the practical
experience of its customers, including large international companies such as
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, as well as specialists QLIK, SAS Institute, Micro
Strategy, Tableau and Tibco.
