2014 TDWI BI Benchmark Report: Organizational and Performance Metrics for Business Intelligence Teams
TDWI Member Exclusive
September 12, 2014
TDWI’s annual BI Benchmark Report enables business intelligence (BI) teams to compare themselves
to their peers on a series of organizational and performance metrics. The 2014 report
is based on a Web survey of 357 BI professionals conducted worldwide in spring and early summer
2014. Responses come from IT professionals, business sponsors, users, and systems
integrators to focus on the individuals who most directly drive BI initiatives. Responses from vendor
representatives, professors, and students were excluded.
This report uses year-over-year comparative data to illustrate trends in the BI industry. Multiple-answer
questions and rounding account for totals that do not equal 100 percent. All figures are
based on worldwide totals and represent percentages unless otherwise indicated. In the concluding
“Characteristics of BI Success” section, we analyze a number of factors that contribute to BI success
or failure, including:
- BI budgets as a percentage of overall IT budget
- Development methodology
- To whom BI teams report
- BI maturity and number of years building an environment
- BI team size as a percentage of overall IT
- Number of per-project, full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
- Scope of BI environments
- Centralized and decentralized BI resource organization