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BARC Survey Shows the Business Intelligence Industry Continues Its Ongoing Empowerment of Business Users
According to The BI Survey 17, published this week by The Business
Application Research Center (BARC), the trend for self-service and the
empowerment of non-technical users continues its rise. The BI Survey is
the world's largest annual survey of business intelligence (BI) software
users. It measures trends and provides a detailed comparison of over 40
of the leading products on the market. For more information, visit www.bi-survey.com
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Data discovery and self-service BI tools, which are both aimed at
non-technical business users, continue to be the dominant user trends
this year. 2017 also witnessed a sharp upturn in the adoption of
collaborative functionality, which is currently the fastest growing
trend in BI.
"The widespread use of social networks and instant messaging in personal
computing has played its part here", said Carsten Bange, founder and CEO
of BARC. "It has led the way in showing how effectively people can
collaborate on these platforms, as well as directly influencing te
development of collaborative BI functionality. The proportion of
employees using BI products in organizations has also been steadily
rising in recent years, which makes effective collaboration all the more
important"
Vendor trends vs. user trends
The BI Survey compares the current level of usage of several trending BI
use cases with what the software vendors believe to be the present level
of adoption. Vendors believe trends such as mobile BI, cloud BI,
embedded BI and location analysis are far more prevalent than current
usage statistics indicate. Conversely, data preparation is a "user led"
trend: vendors are unaware of the full extent to which it has been
adopted by users.
Qlik, Tableau and Microsoft (News - Alert): the most frequently evaluated vendors
When organizations choose their BI solutions, Qlik, Tableau and
Microsoft are the three most frequently evaluated vendors. The BI pure
plays Qlik and Tableau have been strong in the market for a while but
Microsoft's appearance in the top three represents something of a
resurgence over the last two years. This coincides with the 2015
introduction of its new generation of the Power BI product line.
Low recommendation rate for BI solutions
Only 52% of BI users say they would definitely recommend their solution
to others. This is a rather sad reflection on the BI market at the
moment, especially on some of the large multinational, generalist
vendors for whom recommendation rates are especially low. Although they
may be viewed as a safer investment, it seems users are readier to
recommend products from smaller, specialist vendors.
About The BI Survey
The BI Survey is BARC's annual survey-based study into the BI software
market. It is based on user opinion about software selection,
implementation and usage from over 3,000 BI professionals worldwide.
Detailed feedback on 42 BI products is analyzed and compared. Visit https://bi-survey.com/business-intelligence-software-comparison
to perform interactive, high-level product comparisons.
The BI Survey 17 is written by analysts from BARC and Eckerson Group.
About BARC - Business Application Research Center - a CXP Group
Company
The Business Application Research Center (BARC) is an enterprise
software analyst and consulting firm with a focus on Analytics/Business
Intelligence (BI), Data Management, Enterprise Content Management (ECM),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP). Along with analysts CXP and PAC, BARC forms part of the CXP Group
- the leading European group of analysts for enterprise software and IT
services with staff in eight countries. For further information, visit www.barc-research.com.
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