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Data discovery to become main focus of BI vendors, Gartner says |
December 16, 2013
BI (business intelligence) and analytics will remain a top investment priority for CIOs, but by 2015 BI vendors will make ad-hoc data discovery, rather than report generation, the prime focus of their product development efforts, according to a new Gartner report.During the past 10 years, the BI industry has grown based on “IT-centric BI platforms for large-scale systems of record,” Gartner said. “These have tended to be highly governed and centralized, where IT production reports were pushed out to managers and knowledge workers.”While ad-hoc querying and other analytic tools have been available, “they were never really fully embraced by the business analyst masses, primarily because they are perceived by most as being too difficult to use,” the report adds.As it stands, only about 30 percent of potential BI users have adopted their company’s standard BI tools, according to Gartner.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2080780/data-discovery-to-become-main-focus-of-bi-vendors-gartner-says.html#tk.rss_all
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