Business Intelligence flourishes in a new way, data visualisation
49% of organisations say more investment in BI
The latest report issued early April 2011 by Forrester Research contains dome interesting indicators, 49% of organisations expressed a keen intent to invest further in Business Intelligence, data analytics and data visualisation. MXI are Business intelligence specialists in UK and Ireland we are delighted to provide this report attached with this page.
This despite solid investment in recent years as well, Business Intelligence booms and grows as a platform in IT like few others.Senior Managers expressed a desire to increase the success and improve the perception of BI. Business Users remain adamant that more graphically based reporting is required and that it must be simple to use. Download Report
Business Intelligence must move to a level where users can produce the reports themselves without IT being involved. The reasons are obvious and remain the same, competition in the marketplace, mitigating risk to the organisation, timely provision of information, hitting agreed performance levels / KPI's in the business. Rapid Fire Business Intelligence
New BI-Agility & Data visualisation wins hearts & minds
The reports identifies the reason for failure to successfully integrate Business Intelligence are as follows.
A) Failure to use best practice previously and not heeding the lessons of the past. End to End implementations requires closely co ordinated efforts to produce data sourcing, modelling, Portals, metrics, queries, management packs, event based triggers, dashboards. It takes years of experience and is very hard to get right.
B) As Business Intelligence got bigger it got more inflexible. BI became capability rich, scalable technology, industrially scaled and robust and less easy to use, agile and responsive to real users. BI simply put on too much weight and completely IT dependent.
C) Centralising everything simply to big a chunk to chew. Fewer companies want to take on an heavily IT controlled Business intelligence Installation controlled by a politically correct civil service culture. Speed, agility, ease of use is the new kid in town by necessity
