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…
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…
Master data management (MDM) represents a perennial issue for many organizations that want to establish and maintain a common frame of reference (some use the phrase “single source of truth”)…
2023 was a good year for growing revenue through the application of business intelligence (BI). Initiatives focused on revenue generation, compared to those focused on reducing costs, showed three times…
Our data show perceptions of the importance of Guided Analytics® correlates highly with levels of success with business intelligence (BI) initiatives. An important component of self-service BI, Guided Analytics improves…
A minority of organizations use data catalogs (23 percent), and more than 60 percent of organizations also report users encounter difficulty finding analytic content. Of the five data governance organization…
People are the heart of every organization. Executives that want to help the people in their organizations should anonymously apply to work there every few years and go through the…
Most organizations struggle to find the right data to make informed business decisions: 61 percent of users find it impossible, difficult, or somewhat difficult to locate analytic content. These data…
During the second half of 2022, respondents indicated that impacts from external forces would wane throughout 2023 (see the Research Insight “Data Leaders Need to Prepare for the Challenges That…
Privacy issues have largely been the domain of business, risk, and compliance leaders and not directly the concern of data leaders and their teams. However, this is changing as an…
As they increasingly value data-driven decisions and insights, the majority of organizations continue to increase investments in data and analytics. Business intelligence (BI) and data-related initiatives do more than drive…
New analytics and analytical technologies such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) force organizations to extend beyond traditional data governance to encompass analytic content. Organizations reporting high levels…
Organizations invest significant resources in their BI Competency Centers (BICCs) to help best support and ensure the success of their BI investments. Nearly 55 percent of organizations report dedicating at…
Our latest data show that about 90 percent of organizations have plans to use generative AI at some point. Despite these high levels of current and planned use, perceptions about…
Organizations continue to have a generally negative perception about the total cost of ownership (TCO) of BI-related products and solutions. Nearly one-half of organizations believe the TCO of their selected…
For more than two decades, organizations have tried to drive adoption of tools and data analysis best practices through a centralized “brain trust” of business intelligence (BI) skills and strategy.…
