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Press release – Survey: Microsoft Power BI Dominates the BI & Analytics Market

PRESS RELEASE – WÜRZBURG, October 30, 2023

BARC presents The BI & Analytics Survey 24. The world’s largest survey on the use of business intelligence (BI) and data & analytics software is based on the responses of 1,500 participants from around the world, making it the most comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the current BI and analytics market. In its 22nd edition, the report highlights both the advantages and challenges of BI and analytics software. With an extensive examination of 21 software solutions, the survey provides a clear view of current market trends.

Robert Tischler, BARC Senior Analyst and author of the study, comments: “The survey results emphasize the importance for companies to make an informed decision when investing in BI and analytics software. There are significant discrepancies between the actual business benefits achieved and how they are prioritized in software selection. This starts with setting the ‘right’ priorities when choosing software. Our data clearly shows what to focus on to derive more benefits from data through BI and analytics.”

Dominance of Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI remains by far the most frequently evaluated software for BI & analytics. As Figure 1 shows, 72% of organizations that have purchased BI solutions in the last two years have evaluated the Microsoft self-service solution – an impressive increase of 14 percentage points over the previous two years. Tableau and Pyramid, ranked second and third, are still frequently considered. Interest in SAP Analytics Cloud has grown significantly (+7) while the importance of SAP BO is diminishing. In addition to established products, smaller vendors in the market are also seeing significant growth, as evidenced by the rise of Zoho Analytics, which was considered in 9% of all evaluations (+6).

Figure 1: Which BI and analytics products did your organization evaluate? Top 15, by products implemented in the last 2 years

Figure 1: Which BI and analytics products did your organization evaluate? Top 15, by products implemented in the last 2 years (n=1,145)

Purchase criteria for BI and analytics software

The comparison of purchase reasons for BI and analytics software with the actual benefits achieved offers an interesting insight. Companies that buy tools capable of processing large volumes of data without issues derive the highest value. Organizations prioritize “price-performance ratio” and “ease of use for report recipients” when purchasing software. However, in terms of their relevance for achieving benefits, both are ranked quite low at positions 10 and 11. Buyers should therefore focus more on product-related criteria than on cost considerations to secure long-term benefits. Similarly, user-friendliness for report designers should be prioritized over that for report recipients.

Figure 2: Comparison of reasons for software selection and benefits achieved

Figure 2: Comparison of reasons for software selection and benefits achieved (n=1,180) 

Choosing the right software is key to project success

The goal of many companies is to become more efficient and effective with BI and analytics software and make better decisions based on relevant and reliable data. The BI & Analytics Survey 24 confirms that in general the software delivers on this fundamental promise. A crucial aspect of BI and analytics adoption is choosing the right software. The market is dynamic and the differences between the products are often not immediately apparent.

The BI & Analytics Survey 24 emphasizes the importance of a thorough and comparative evaluation of products to achieve the greatest possible business benefit. Implementing and operating BI and analytics software is equally crucial. Effective collaboration between clients and providers, aligning the product with company needs and the availability of internal company resources are just some of the factors contributing to success. The complete study contains many detailed analyses, charts and analyst comments that illustrate the above points.

For more information, please visit:

The BI & Analytics Survey 24 – The Results
An overview and analysis of the most important product-related findings and topical results from The BI & Analytics Survey 24.

Best Practices
Provides advice to buyers of BI software as well as users and administrators of existing BI solutions based on the results of our analysis.

Sample, Products, Methodology and KPIs
Provides information about the sample and an overview of the survey methodology. It also includes descriptions of the KPIs we use in The BI & Analytics Survey, as well as details of our calculation methods.

Vendor Performance Summaries
A series of executive reports on each product featured in The BI & Analytics Survey 24. Each report contains a vendor and product overview by BARC’s analyst team plus a summary of the relevant product-related results from The BI & Analytics Survey.

About BARC

BARC is a leading analyst firm for data & analytics and enterprise software with a reputation for unbiased and trusted advice. Our expert analysts deliver a wide range of research, events and advisory services for the data & analytics community.

Our innovative research evaluates software and vendors rigorously and highlights market trends, delivering insights that enable our customers to innovate with data, analytics and AI.

BARC’s 25 years of experience with data strategy & culture, data architecture, organization and software selection help clients transform into truly data-driven organizations.

www.barc.com

Contact

For all enquiries and further information, please contact:

Axel Bange
Tel: +49 (0) 2331 356 93 95
Email: abange@barc.com

The BI & Analytics Survey 21

Press Release: Faster Is Not Always Better – but in BI and Analytics It Is

PRESS RELEASE – WÜRZBURG, October 27th, 2020

The BI & Analytics Survey is published today. BARC’s flagship annual research study analyzes feedback from a survey of 2,591 users and consultants on their selection and use of BI and analytics software and their views on market trends.

The fastest projects deliver the greatest business benefits

While decent benefits are obtained by BI and analytics projects with the longest implementation times, there is clear evidence that the fastest projects achieve the highest level of business benefits – and this gap has widened in the last twelve months (see Figure 1).

“This shows that timely results are crucial when implementing your analytics and BI solutions,” said Robert Tischler, Senior BARC Analyst and author of The BI & Analytics Survey 21. “Quick reaction to changing requirements driven by developments inside or outside a company straightforwardly impact the benefits and insights gleaned. Cutting requirements into slices to deliver benefits to users as quickly as possible is a fruitful approach as the evidence clearly shows.”

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Figure 1: Level of business benefits achieved, by implementation time, 2020 (n=1,708) vs. 2019 (n=2,055)

 

Today’s projects finish faster

The median implementation time for BI and analytics projects is currently just over four months. However, the proportion of projects completed within three months is significantly higher for projects that started less than two years ago (54 percent) compared to older projects (43 percent). This shows that changes in technology as well as project methodology enable customers to deliver solutions quicker and yield benefits faster.

BI and analytics are like wine – they improve with age

On average, BI and analytics implementations in place for more than two years generate greater benefits than their more recent counterparts.

“Do not expect all benefits to materialize immediately,” advised Tischler. “Analytics and BI is not a one-time project but an ongoing effort that constantly delivers value for businesses. Similarly, buyers should not expect to cover the full scope of solutions that have existed and matured over 20 years in 20 weeks as too much is baked into these established systems.”

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Figure 2: Level of business benefits achieved, by age of implementation (n=1,682)

 

BI and analytics are increasingly embedded in business applications

Embedding BI and analytics is currently a hot topic with many vendors focused on delivering polished content through OEM. The proportion of users working with embedded BI and analytics solutions has steadily increased in recent years but there is still room for growth.

“While several large vendors embed their own analytics products in their business applications portfolio, a number of smaller specialists are providing their solutions as OEM embedded in third-party business applications,” said Tischler. “This approach is increasingly being pursued as sophisticated BI functions are expected in most business applications today. For OEM-heavy vendors, packaging a solution with prebuilt content is a possible route to landing at important accounts and expanding beyond the initial scope of the solution.”

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Figure 3: Use of embedded analytics and BI over time (n=changing basis)

 

About The BI & Analytics Survey

The BI & Analytics Survey 21 (formerly known as The BI Survey) is the 19th edition of BARC’s major annual study into the selection and use of analytics and business intelligence tools. The findings are based on a worldwide survey of 2,591 software users, consultants and vendors, which was conducted from late February to early June 2020. It features current data on market trends as well as detailed analysis and comparison of 33 leading software products from 28 different vendors based on user feedback. The survey was renamed to “The BI & Analytics Survey 21” this year to reflect the stronger overall role that data and analytics now plays.

For more information, visit:
https://bi-survey.com/bi-survey-about

For aggregated product-related results and an online product comparison tool, visit:
https://bi-survey.com/business-intelligence-software-comparison

About BARC

BARC (Business Application Research Center) is one of Europe’s leading analyst firms for business software, focusing on the areas of data, business intelligence (BI) and analytics, enterprise content management (ECM) and customer relationship management (CRM). The company was founded in 1999 as a spin-off of the Chair of Business Administration and Information Systems at the Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg. Today, BARC combines empirical and theoretical research, technical expertise and practical experience, including a constant exchange with all market participants.

Contact

For further information, please contact:

Regina Schmidt
Communications Manager
Tel: +49 (0) 931 880651-47
Mobile: + 49 (0) 1520 431 82 39
E-Mail: rschmidt@barc.de

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BARC powerBImap Creates Transparency in the Market Around Microsoft Analytics

PRESS RELEASE – WÜRZBURG, August 3rd, 2020

New interactive tool and analyst market overview covers more than a thousand companies and products in the Microsoft Power BI ecosystem.

  • – BARC presents powerBImap, the comprehensive market overview around Microsoft Power BI
  • – In combination with analysts’ evaluations, powerBImap creates transparency in the rapidly growing ecosystem
  • – powerBImap is an integral part of the world’s largest survey on the use of BI and analytics tools, The BI & Analytics Survey

Valuable new resource

BARC’s powerBImap represents a valuable new resource around Microsoft Analytics. This new market overview for the fast-growing Microsoft Power BI ecosystem will initially appear in regional editions for the German-speaking market, North America and the Middle East. For the first time, an innovative form of visualization is used, the “Voronoi” Treemap, which enables users to search and select from a comprehensive database of hundreds of software providers and consulting companies on an interactive website.

“The core task of an analyst is to bring transparency to markets,” said BARC’s CEO, Carsten Bange. “The fast-growing market around Microsoft Analytics and Power BI offers many starting points for this. With the combination of classic analyst assessment in powerBImap and our interactive Treemap Browser featuring hundreds of solutions and service partners, we are able to help interested parties to get the best out of their investment.”

powerBImap is driven together with well-known industry experts Donald Farmer, the former “face of Microsoft BI” at Microsoft and VP for Strategy at Qlik, and Stefan Sexl, founder of one of the major European Power BI consultancies. “Microsoft is great at building strong ecosystems around their technologies,” said Donald Farmer. “Power BI is supported and extended by hundreds of companies around the globe, and this fascinating partner ecosystem is a major reason for the fast growth of the platform. With powerBImap, we help Power BI users to discover and combine the best add-ons and partners, but we also support the ecosystem in connecting with each other.”

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The interactive powerBImap browser

Available online

The first edition of powerBImap is now available for the DACH market (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). Further regional editions will follow shortly. Thanks to the support of nine sponsors, powerBImap is now available free of charge as part of The BI & Analytics Survey. Formerly known as The BI Survey, it is the world’s largest survey on the use of BI and analytics tools.

Visit: www.bi-survey.com/powerbimap

About BARC

BARC (Business Application Research Center) is one of Europe’s leading analyst firms for business software, focusing on the areas of data, business intelligence (BI) and analytics, enterprise content management (ECM) and customer relationship management (CRM). The company was founded in 1999 as a spin-off of the Chair of Business Administration and Information Systems at the Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg. Today, BARC combines empirical and theoretical research, technical expertise and practical experience, including a constant exchange with all market participants.

Contact

For further information, please contact:

Mark Handford
Tel.: +44 (0)1536 772 451
E-Mail: mhandford@barc-research.com

BI Survey 19 press release

Business Intelligence Buyers Should Change Their Priorities

PRESS RELEASE – WÜRZBURG, October 30th, 2019
The Business Application Research Center (BARC) publishes The BI Survey 19, the latest edition of its influential, empirical study into the global market for analytics and business intelligence (BI) software. For more information, visit www.bi-survey.com

Data from The BI Survey 19 reveals that the most popular reasons for choosing to buy a BI product are not always those that result in the most successful implementations. For example, buyers who made sure they evaluated BI tools with a large data handling capacity yielded the highest business benefits with their BI solutions but, in practice, only 20 percent of buyers reported having that priority. Conversely, some criteria have less influence on future success but are often treated as important, such as price-performance ratio, which was cited as a major selection criterion by 42 percent of buyers.

How buyers should choose (rank) Difference
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How buyers choose (rank)
 Large data handling capacity 1 +6 7
 ‘Proof of concept’ faster or better 2 +11 13
 High innovative capacity of the vendor 3 +9 12
 Fast query performance 4 +2 6
 Good coverage of BI specific requirements 5 -1 4
 Ease of use for report designers 6 -1 5
 Flexibility of the software 7 -5 2
 Ease of use for report recipients 8 -5 3
 Deployment option 9 +10 19
 Ability to support large numbers of users 10 +1 11
 Price-performance ratio 11 -10 1
 International focus of the software 12 +8 20
 Good vendor relationship 13 -4 9
 Availability of local support 14 0 14
 Predefined data connection 15 -7 8

Figure 1: Reasons to buy a BI product vs. level of business benefits achieved, top 15 (n=2,212)

“Comparing the motives behind choosing analytics and BI tools with the benefits gained in real-world deployments produces some fascinating insights and enables us to see which selection criteria should be highly valued and which will have less impact on the success of implementations,” said Robert Tischler, Senior Analyst at BARC and co-author of The BI Survey 19.

Top benefits gained from BI relate to improved decision support

The three business benefits most likely to be achieved through analytics and BI – faster and more accurate reporting, analysis or planning and better decision-making – all relate to the improvement of decision support. However, many companies are also striving to monetize their data.

“Data monetization means generating measurable economic benefits from available data sources through analytics,” explained Tischler. “Data monetization can yield direct or indirect results and it can be internal or external. Using analytics and BI to make money out of data is becoming increasingly important nowadays, but still these benefits are typically achieved less frequently than others due to the challenges faced.”

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Figure 2: Level of business benefits achieved from using a BI product (n=2,477)

Democratized access to data: a work in progress

While finance and controlling departments are using BI in 80 percent of the companies surveyed, other departments that heavily rely on data such as sales (60 percent) and operations (53 percent) appear to be starved of the opportunity to gain relevant insights from their BI solution.

“Successful decision support in modern organizations requires democratized access to data,” said Tischler. “Decision makers in all departments need up-to-date and relevant information to base their decisions and actions on a reliable foundation. Results from analytics and BI must reach and be actively used by data-literate employees throughout the organization.”

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Figure 3: Which departments in your organization use BI application(s)? (n=2,550)

Self-service analytics tools rule the business intelligence market

More companies are now evaluating self-service analytics tools than any other flavor of BI solution. The list of most commonly evaluated BI software products is dominated by self-service-oriented tools, with the top four all belonging to this category.

This dominance is underpinned by figures for implementations taking place in the last two years. At the top of the pile, Microsoft Power BI, which has been evaluated 9 percent more often in the last two years compared to all-time, and Tableau (+6 percent) have improved on their already strong positions. The same is true for Qlik Sense (+4 percent).

About the study

The BI Survey 19 is the eighteenth edition of BARC’s major annual study into the selection and use of analytics and business intelligence tools. The findings are based on a worldwide survey of 3,021 software users, consultants and vendors, which was conducted from February to mid-June 2019. It features current data on market trends as well as detailed analysis and comparison of 36 leading software products from 31 different vendors based on user feedback.

For more information, visit:
https://bi-survey.com/bi-survey-about

For aggregated product-related results and an online product comparison tool, visit:
https://bi-survey.com/business-intelligence-software-comparison 

About BARC – Business Application Research Center

BARC (Business Application Research Center) 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). With experts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, BARC supports clients in their software selection and strategy through specialist consulting, leading-edge research and a program of conferences and highly-focused seminars. For more information, visit www.barc-research.com

For further information, please contact:

Nikolai Janoschek
Head of Market Research
Tel: +49 (0) 931 880651-0
E-Mail: njanoschek@barc.de

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The BI Survey 16: Operational BI Continues Its Rise in 2016

PRESS RELEASE – WÜRZBURG, 10th November 2016

BARC’s annual BI Survey results are launched on the new bi-survey.com website. Major findings this year include the continued surge in the use of business intelligence (BI) in production/operations departments, customer analysis is named as the #1 investment area in new BI projects, and several trends including collaboration and sensor data analysis are now established as critical BI components for many organizations        

Departments Using BI

Finance, management and sales departments continue to lead the way in the use of BI, but with little variation in usage rates since 2014.

Elsewhere, production/operations departments continue a strong upwards trajectory, rising from 20% to 53% usage in the last eight years.

“While BI has always been strong in sales and finance, production and operations departments have traditionally been more cautious about adopting it,” said Carsten Bange, CEO of BARC. “But with the general trend for using data to support decision-making, this has all changed. Technology for areas such as event processing and real-time data integration and visualization has become more widely available in recent years. Also, the wave of big data from the Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet has increased awareness and demand for analytics, and will likely continue to drive further BI usage in production and operations.”

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Figure 1: Which departments are using BI? Timeline (n=changing basis)

BI Trends

It is clear that some BI trends that began with a buzz a few years ago now serve as critical BI components for a growing number of companies. Areas such as collaboration and spatial/location analysis are reported as “in use” by more than 20 percent of respondents. At 12 percent, cloud BI is now in double-digits with more companies planning to leverage it over the longer term. Social media analysis is the only listed trend in use by less than 10 percent of Survey respondents this year.

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Figure 2: Which of the trending areas do companies address with their BI product? (n=2,617)

Customer Analysis a Major Investment Area

40% of companies are now putting their BI budgets into customer behavior analysis, and 32% are investing in developing a unified view of customers. “With areas such as accounting and finance more or less under control, companies are moving to other areas of the enterprise, in particular to gain a better understanding of customer, market and competitive dynamics,” said Carsten Bange.

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Figure 3: In which BI use cases is your company investing in? (n=2,210)

Click here to access BI-Survey.com

More information about “The BI Survey 16”

About The BI Survey 16

The BI Survey 16 is based on user opinion from over 3,000 BI professionals worldwide about their software selection, implementation and usage. Detailed feedback on 37 BI products from 30 vendors is analyzed and compared, including international giants IBM, Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL) and SAP, as well as BI specialists such as Information Builders, MicroStrategy (MSTR), Qlik, SAS Institute and Tableau (DATA).

About BARC – Business Application Research Center – a CXP Group Company

The Business Application Research Centre (BARC) is an analyst and consulting firm for enterprise software with a focus on Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management (DM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

For over twenty years, BARC analysts have combined market, product and implementation knowledge to advise clients. A continuous program of market analysis and product comparison studies forms the basis of BARC’s expertise, ensuring that its analysts possess a detailed knowledge of software markets, vendors and products, as well as the latest trends and developments.

Along with CXP and PAC, BARC forms part of the CXP Group – the leading European IT research and consulting firm with staff in eight countries.

For further information or enquiries, please contact:

Mark Handford
Tel: +44 (0) 1536 772451
E-Mail: mhandford@barc-research.com

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Next Generation Software Comparison – BARC Launches “bi-survey.com”

PRESS RELEASE – WÜRZBURG, 18th October 2016

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) extends its portfolio with the interactive platform “bi-survey.com”. The English-language website is now available at www.bi-survey.com, serving as a central source of information and an authoritative guide to the comparison, selection and purchase of Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics software. The platform combines the world’s largest database of user feedback on BI and Analytics products (“The BI Survey 16”) with detailed technical and functional product evaluations by BARC analysts.

The range of content offered on “bi-survey.com” includes product reviews, BARC research results, infographics, best practice guides for software selection and an interactive “BI Survey Analyzer”, which can be used to analyze the results of “The BI Survey 16”. It also provides insights into current trends and developments in the rapidly developing BI market.           

Knowledge through experience

Visitors to “bi-survey.com” benefit from a unique combination of user and independent analyst reviews of BI tools, revealing the pros and cons of each tool. This blend of analyst expertise and feedback from the users who work with BI tools on a daily basis provides companies with a valuable basis for choosing their own tools. The “BI Tool Comparison“ section contains an overview of the leading BI and Analytics tools on the market based on customer reviews from “The BI Survey 16” and BARC analyst evaluations. Using the “BI User Review Matrix“ (see Figure 1), visitors gain an interactive overview of user ratings from “The BI Survey 16”.

With over 30,000 survey responses in 15 years, “bi-survey.com” is based on a unique wealth of data. It offers proven best practice advice on selecting BI software as well as an understanding of why companies choose their solutions, how they use them and how satisfied they are with them.

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Figure 1: BI User Review Matrix

Do it yourself

One of the highlights of “bi-survey.com” is the “BI Survey Analyzer”, an interactive online tool that enables visitors to analyze user feedback from “The BI Survey 16” (see Figure 2). The free basic version allows users to generate charts and filter them by region, industry, competitive peer group, company size and more. With the premium version, users can create their own customized shortlist of BI products and compare them based on 32 different criteria.

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Figure 2: The BI Survey Analyzer

Globally unique product analysis

BARC’s “Vendor Performance Summaries” – a series of comprehensive evaluations of the world’s leading BI software solutions – are available as a fee-based service. Each Summary presents and evaluates a BI product in detail. The scope and depth of the “Vendor Performance Summaries” is unique: They contain highly-detailed product evaluations based on BARC analyst expertise and customer feedback across 32 different criteria, as well as an analysis of application scenarios, reasons why customers choose to purchase each product and the problems reported by users.

Click here to access “bi-survey.com”

More information about “The BI Survey 16”

About BARC – Business Application Research Center – a CXP Group Company

The Business Application Research Centre (BARC) is an analyst and consulting firm for enterprise software with a focus on Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management (DM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

For over twenty years, BARC analysts have combined market, product and implementation knowledge to advise clients. A continuous program of market analysis and product comparison studies forms the basis of BARC’s expertise, ensuring that its analysts possess a detailed knowledge of software markets, vendors and products, as well as the latest trends and developments.

Along with CXP and PAC, BARC forms part of the CXP Group – the leading European IT research and consulting firm with staff in eight countries.

For further information or enquiries, please contact:

Mark Handford
Tel: +44 (0) 1536 772451
E-Mail: mhandford@barc-research.com

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Pervasive Business Intelligence: Still A Dream

According to The BI Survey 15, BARC’s detailed annual audit of end-user sentiment on the business intelligence (BI) software market, published today.

PRESS RELEASE – LONDON, 19th October 2015

Pervasive BI: Still a dream

Usage of BI is becoming more pervasive, but remains a long way from being truly widespread in companies, according to The BI Survey 15. Following two years of zero growth, the median percentage of employees using BI in companies increased by more than 2% on last year to over 13%. From a sample of 2,071 responses, 45% of participants say their companies have less than 10% of employees using BI.

Chart from The BI Survey 15: Percentage of BI users in company

Figure 1: Percentage of BI users in company, median percentage, timeline (n=changing basis). Source: The BI Survey 15

“New and emerging use cases – such as the steering and controlling of operational processes – and software buying preferences focused on ease of use, support for more concurrent users and flexibility are among the key drivers for this upturn and future broader acceptance,” said Dr. Carsten Bange, founder and CEO of BARC. “Greater adoption of cloud-based BI deployments in the future could also lead to higher penetration rates thanks to their flexibility and ease of deployment. However, our survey finds that the adoption rate for cloud-based BI solutions is still very low.”

 

Predictive analysis/data mining set for wider usage

Predictive analysis/data mining is only performed by 20% of respondents in this year’s BI Survey, but it stands to see the biggest gain of all BI tasks in the coming years with a further 40% planning to use BI solutions for this purpose.

Chart from The BI Survey 15: Tasks where BI is used

Figure 2: Tasks where BI is used (n=2429). Source: The BI Survey 15

 

Surge of BI usage in production/operations

Chart from The BI Survey 15: Which departments are using BI

Figure 3: Which departments are using BI? Timeline (n=changing basis). Source: The BI Survey 15

Finance (85%), management (68%) and sales (62%) departments continue to be the leading BI users, but there has been surge of BI usage in production/operations (to 51%) in the last two years. If this pattern continues, production/operations could overtake sales and IT to become the third biggest user of the technology within the next three years.

“This finding is a result of the general trend in business intelligence to become more operational,” said Bange. “Reporting and analytical capabilities are embedded in or used in relation to operational processes, either to steer processes as they happen in real time or to understand processes better, for example to improve planning.”

This is just a small selection of the hundreds of findings in The BI Survey 15. Contact us for interview requests or to find out more.

 

About The BI Survey 15
The BI Survey 15 is based on user opinion from over 3,000 BI professionals worldwide about software selection, implementation and usage. Detailed feedback on a record 35 BI products from 30 vendors is analyzed and compared, including international giants IBM, Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL) and SAP, as well as BI specialists such as Information Builders, MicroStrategy (MSTR), Qlik, SAS Institute and Tableau (DATA).

About BARC
BARC is an enterprise software industry analyst delivering product evaluations, conferences, market research and consulting to over 1,000 customers each year. BARC specializes in advising organizations on software selection in its core research areas of business intelligence, data management and enterprise content management.

Along with CXP and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), BARC forms part of the CXP Group – the leading European IT research and consulting firm with 140 staff in eight countries.

Press contact:
Mark Handford
+ 44 (0)1536 772 451
mhandford@barc-research.com
www.barc-research.com/BI-Survey

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The BI Survey 15 Infographic

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