Make BI Tool Consolidation a Priority in 2025
The pace of BI tool consolidation projects increased in recent years and now sits at an all-time high level, with 36 percent of organizations reporting plans to consolidate business intelligence…
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To Enable More Value Creation, Embrace the Right Use of Spreadsheets
Ask any of your business analysts—even the broader user community at large—and the vast majority will consider spreadsheets essential to do their jobs. Despite decades of trying to marginalize spreadsheets,…
BI Tools Longevity Data Show Right Fit, Better Skills, and More Experience Lead to Greater BI Success
Data leaders and their teams historically emphasized “getting the right tools” in place and then judging whether business intelligence (BI) tools work well for their organizations. Although tool choice matters,…
How to Win Friends by Influencing the Business: The Positive Effect of Data Leadership on BI Objectives and Achievements
The objectives of business intelligence (BI) initiatives remain fairly consistent over the years, with most organizations, across industries, leading BI business cases with the rather generic goal of “better decision…
The Golden Age of EPM: Prepare to Unlock Additional Business Benefits
Dresner Advisory Services believes that a “golden age” of enterprise performance management (EPM) software is dawning. EPM solutions are mature and highly functional in all areas, widely available in the…
Single-Vendor or Best-of-Breed Analytics? Which Is Best for Your Organization?
Analytical platforms continue to mature and gain traction in the market. In 2024, a slight majority of organizations (55 percent) favor deploying and using an integrated analytical platform from a…
Successful Business Strategies and Operating Models Require Business-Aligned Governance of Data and Analytics
Even with the advent of amazing information access delivered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems, most organizations still consider it difficult to find business-relevant content and analyses. They also perceive…
Develop an ESG Reporting Sourcing Strategy
to Stay Ahead of ESG Regulations
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting represents the lowest-priority capability in enterprise performance management (EPM), with 25 percent of respondents viewing ESG reporting as unimportant. However, organizations that consider ESG…
The Data Organization Doesn’t Make Leaders—Leaders Make the Data Organization
Data-leadership roles—often carrying the title of chief data officer (CDO) or chief analytics officer (CAO)—have received considerable attention from business executives, industry analysts, and the press over the last several…
Governance Is Not Compliance—It Is a Key Competency for Modern Competitive Advantage
Most organizations aspiring to be Hyper-Decisive® need to make a critical shift in their perception of governance, and view it as a strategically impactful capability, rather than a simple compliance-oriented…
Defend and Grow Your BI Budget by Focusing Spending
on Supporting Critical Business Outcomes
Data leaders and their teams often struggle to deliver value due to limited budgets or allocations not fully aligned to business priorities and needs. Across industries, our data show that…
Use Embedded EPM AI to Unlock the Business Value of AI
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming mainstream. Many vendors embed AI technology in their products faster than many organizations can scope and deploy their own in-house AI initiatives.…
Cut Risk and Boost BI Success With Formal Data Leadership
Despite the hype and activity surrounding emerging data-centric roles, such as the chief data officer (CDO) and chief analytics officer (CAO), a surprising gap in data leadership exists for many…
Data Leaders Can Ensure Budget Stability and Optimal Allocations Through Alignment With Strategic Business Outcomes
Data leaders and their teams often struggle to deliver value due to limited budgets or allocations not fully aligned to business priorities and needs. Across industries, our data show that…
Dresner Advisory’s Fifth Annual Business Intelligence Success Index®: In the Gen AI Era, a Strong BI Foundation Is Key to Accelerating Data and Analytics Strategies
Dresner Advisory’s Fifth Annual Business Intelligence Success Index®: In the Gen AI Era, a Strong BI Foundation Is Key to Accelerating Data and Analytics Strategies Economic forces continue to make…
Use Cases Need to Drive Priorities When Planning and Investing in Data Fabric and Data Mesh Technologies
To capture the benefits of more adaptable, flexible, and automated infrastructure to support evolving BI needs better, organizations must modernize several technology capabilities. Most important is the need to deliver…
If Your Business Decision-Making Process Is Not Formalized
and Data Driven, You’re Just Guessing
Business decision-making processes and approaches vary widely. An increasing number of organizations strive to identify critical business decisions to make and then use data-driven approaches to inform their options and…
Rising SI and Consultant Use on BI Projects Means Data Leaders
Must Provide the Data and Analytics Guardrails
Our latest data show that use and perceived importance of system integrators (SIs) and consultants continues to rise. Organizations increasingly allocate greater percentages of their data and analytics project budgets…
Data Mesh and Fabric Confusing?
Data Leaders Need to Unpack Next-Gen Data Architectures
Data architectures and their supporting technologies and capabilities (including analytic data infrastructure, and data engineering and data catalog products) face increased technology and business pressure to meet the requirements of…
Generative AI Smoke Is Clearing; Data Leaders Need A Game Plan
Our latest data show that between 72-82 percent of organizations use or plan to use generative AI at some point. Although that number is down from the nearly 90 percent…