Is your business following the trend for business intelligence?
Less than 30% of businesses, which are potential users of standard business intelligence tools, use the latest technology available today, according to a study by Gartner.
Though the tools used by business intelligence consumers have been coming into business IT environments, the low take-up is due to the fact that enterprise business intelligence are often too difficult to use (step in Tableau), slow to respond or deliver content of limited relevance, the report reveals.
The Gartner report "The Consumerization of BI Drives Greater Adoption" suggests that the consumerisation of business intelligence technologies could benefit organisations by delivering a better-fit and broader user appeal.
The report describes that the business intelligence is not pervasive and its adoption is not in line with the investment made by most firms. The study notes the concept of a single enterprise wide business intelligence product standard is flawed and organisations need to oversee a number of BI platform components.
Gartner Magic Quadrant survey data shows that Tableau was the most widely deployed interactive visualization product in organizations with an existing BI platform standard — deployed in a higher percentage of organizations with an enterprise BI standard than either QlikTech or Tibco Spotfire.
While it is inevitable that managing a portfolio of business intelligence applications will require more effort than is needed for a single platform, Gartner recommends that companies should adopt a portfolio management approach to support these new consumer business intelligence tools, such as Tableau.
Three key factors that can drive adoption of technology can also discourage the sustained use of business intelligence by its intended users, if weak or absent, the report states.
If business intelligence is hard to work with, or completely static, users will not use it, and if there are delays in query responses or report production; if the business intelligence platform omits information that users need, or does not express content in line with their frame of reference, then takeup will be low. Tableau's strong performance, even during a period of slower market growth, is evidence of its ability to meet the increased market demand for easy-to-use and intuitive interactive business intelligence tools that are easy to deploy without IT assistance
Further, mobile devices were mentioned as the main platform for the consumerisation of BI technology and IT firms were required to adopt a portfolio management approach to support these new consumer business intelligence tools.
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