TDWI's Best Practices Reports educate technical and business professionals about emerging issues in business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW). These in-depth reports offer objective, vendor-neutral research consisting of interviews with practitioners and industry experts, as well as a survey of BI professionals worldwide. The reports are sponsored by vendors who collectively wish to evangelize a BI/DW discipline or emerging technology.
The
key to making BI pervasive is getting users to adopt and use the BI tools that
an organization purchases for them. This seemingly straightforward statement is
actually very complex given all the variables that go into making a BI tool easy
to use. This, according to our survey, is why the penetration of active BI users
in organizations is only 24%.
The biggest impediments to BI adoption (i.e., obtaining licenses for all users) are the time and complexity to deploy BI tools followed by the cost of BI licenses, according to our survey. Recognizing these challenges, BI vendors are making strides to reduce the complexity and costs of BI tools.
This report will help you to understand system dynamics driving BI initiatives and the variables that affect leverage points of usability and project management. Find out how BI teams can focus their efforts to ensure widespread deployment of BI solutions.
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