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1. CRACKING
THE CODE
BEHIND FAST
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
As information demand and data volume continue to grow, organizations are
faced with the challenge of analyzing and disseminating that information in a
timely manner. That’s why Best-in-Class companies already are adopting
visual discovery over traditional Business Intelligence (BI), resulting in
responsive, self-service analytics.
52%
Need agility because of
AS THE DECISION-MAKING information demand
WINDOW SHRINKS,
AGILITY IS THE KEY
It comes down to getting the right information to the right people at the right time.
We surveyed hundreds of organizations to identify Best-in-Class, industry average
and laggards in information agility. This is based on their ability to find information
needed in the time required, the average elapsed time to add a column to an existing
report, and time to create a new dashboard.
38%
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self-service users
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A CLOSER LOOK AT
THE BEST IN CLASS
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responsive analytic solutions, are more likely to use dashboards,
90% 95
in-memory analytics and visual data discovery tools.
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THE FINDINGS
The reports are clear: Interactive BI allows for agility in the face of decreasing business
response time. Forty-four percent of the organizations that use just interactive BI tools
are always able to provide business managers with the information they need, in the
timeframe required. This holds true for just 17 percent of the organizations that rely
solely on traditional BI.
Companies that have complemented their traditional BI solutions with the interactive
approach are almost 50 percent more likely to consistently meet the needs of business
managers than those that rely solely on traditional BI solutions. A highly visual approach
to BI can liberate business managers and transform their decision-making by ensuring
they have access to the right information at the right time.
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