Jim Ericson

Jim Ericson

Embedded Business Intelligence Market Study 2024

This year also marks the 12th edition of this Embedded Business Intelligence report. As organizations increasingly prioritize embedding analytics within other applications, we explore the diverse requirements for integrating analytical functionality in context. In today’s fast-evolving market, where competition is…

Analytical Platforms 2024

Analytical Platforms are integrated technology environments that include all needed functionality to support multiple analytical or BI use cases, including data engineering, data catalog, self-service BI, data science and machine learning, embedded BI or analytics, and cloud support. Our 4th…

Sales Performance Management Market Study 2024

This year, we are pleased to present the seventh edition of our Sales Performance Management (SPM) market study. Our report delves into essential facets of SPM, including sales planning, analysis, and execution—elements vital to optimizing sales team effectiveness and organizational…

Small and Midsize Business Intelligence Market Study 2024

The Wisdom of Crowds® Small and Midsize Business Intelligence Market Study 2024 provides a wealth of information and analysis, offering value to both consumers and producers of business intelligence technology and services. Vendor licensees use the Wisdom of Crowds® Small…

Guided Analytics 2024

Guided Analytics® improves time to insight and action by supporting the creation of connections between related and relevant information and directing and suggesting analytical story flow. It is an important topic for organizations seeking to better leverage both information resources…

Collective Insights 2024

Collective Insights® builds upon our definition of Collaborative Business Intelligence and adds user governance to the mix. Collaborative Business Intelligence is a process where two or more people or organizations work together to develop a common understanding, which is shared…

Self-Service Business Intelligence 2024

Self-service BI builds upon collaborative business intelligence and user governance to create an environment where users can easily create and share insights in a managed and consistent fashion. Collaborative Business Intelligence is a process where two or more people or…

Supply Chain Planning and Analysis Market Study 2024

Supply chain planning is the process of planning a product, sourcing raw materials, making products, through delivering those products to customers (other businesses and/or consumers), with the ultimate goal of balancing supply and demand. Supply chain analytics enables organizations to…

Make Adoption (Not Migration) Your Cloud BI Strategy

Of all the adoption and migration trends in data and infrastructure management, cloud computing is perhaps the most inevitable. Yet Dresner Advisory Services and other research providers consistently find that business intelligence (BI) success today does not plainly correlate to…

Cloud Computing and Business Intelligence Market Study 2022

The Wisdom of Crowds® Cloud Computing and Business Intelligence Market Study 2022 provides a wealth of information and analysis, offering value to both consumers and producers of business intelligence technology and services. Vendor licensees use the Wisdom of Crowds® Cloud…

People Analytics Market Study 2022

The Wisdom of Crowds® People Analytics Market Study 2022 provides a wealth of information and analysis, offering value to both consumers and producers of business intelligence technology and services. Vendor licensees use the Wisdom of Crowds® People Analytics Market Study…

Cloud BI: Think Big, Think Small, Act Rationally

Our 10th annual deep dive into cloud behavior and sentiment finds enthusiasm at an alltime high, with a majority considering cloud services either critical or very important (see the 2021 Dresner Advisory Services Cloud Computing and Business Intelligence Market Study).…

Analytical Platforms 2021

The Wisdom of Crowds® Analytical Platforms 2021 provides a wealth of information and analysis, offering value to both consumers and producers of business intelligence technology and services.