The State of Business Intelligence, 2018
Forbes tech offers the insights from Dresner Advisoty Service’s 2018 Wisdom of Crowds® Business Intelligence Market Study.
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Executive Management, Operations, and Sales are the three primary roles driving Business Intelligence (BI) adoption in 2018.
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Dashboards, reporting, end-user self-service, advanced visualization, and data warehousing are the top five most important technologies and initiatives strategic to BI in 2018.
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Small organizations with up to 100 employees have the highest rate of BI penetration or adoption in 2018.
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Organizations successful with analytics and BI apps define success in business results, while unsuccessful organizations concentrate on adoption rate first.
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50% of vendors offer perpetual on-premises licensing in 2018, a notable decline over 2017. The number of vendors offering subscription licensing continues to grow for both on-premises and public cloud models.
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Fewer than 15% of respondent organizations have a Chief Data Officer, and only about 10% have a Chief Analytics Officer today.