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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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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 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 Economic forces continue to make…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…