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HIGH PRIORITY MARKET

Global Business Intelligence and Analytics market to reach $ 16.9 bn in 2016

Global revenue in the business intelligence ( BI ) and analytics
process and every person is an analytics user .
market is forecast to reach $ 16.9 billion in 2016 , an increase of
It is no longer possible for chief marketing officers ( CMOs ) to
5.2 percent from 2015 .
be experts only in branding and ad placement . They must also
The BI and analytics market is in the final stages of a multiyear
be customer analytics experts . The same is true for the chief
shift from IT-led , system-of-record reporting to business-led ,
HR , supply chain and financial roles in most industries .
self-service analytics . As a result , the modern business
To meet the time-to-insight demanded by today ' s competitive
intelligence and analytics ( BI & A ) platform has emerged to
business environment , many organizations want to
meet new organizational requirements for accessibility , agility
democratize analytics capabilities via self-service .
and deeper analytical insight .
Defining the modern BI and analytics platform
The shift to the modern BI and analytics platform has now reached a tipping point . Organizations must transition to easyanalytics to-use , fast and agile modern BI platforms to create business value from deeper insights into diverse data sources .
platform and a traditional , IT-centric reporting and
The most significant difference between a modern BI and analysis platform is the amount of upfront modeling required , as well as the skills needed , to build analytics content ( Table
The democratization of analytics
1 ). Creating analytics content via IT-centric reporting platforms
As analytics has become increasingly strategic to most
starts with IT consolidating and modeling data in advance . By
businesses and central to most business roles , every business
contrast , a modern BI & A platform supports IT-enabled
is an analytics business , every business process is an analytics
development of analytics content .
Table : High-Level Comparison of Traditional and Modern BI and Analytics Platforms Analytics Workflow Component
Data Source
Data Ingestion and Preparation
Content Authoring
Analysis
Insight Delivery
Source : Gartner ( December 2015 )
IT-Centric Reporting and Analysis Platform
Upfront dimensional modeling required ( IT-built star schemas )
IT-produced
Primarily IT staff , but also some power users
Structured ad hoc reporting and analysis based on a predefined model
Distribution and notifications via scheduled reports or a portal
Modern BI and Analytics Platform
Upfront modeling not required ( flat files / flat tables )
IT-enabled
Business users
Free-form exploration
Delivery via sharing and collaboration , storytelling , and open APIs
To get the full benefit of modern BI and analytics platforms , leaders must rethink most aspects of their current IT-centric , centralized analytics deployments , including technology , roles and responsibilities , organizational models , governance processes and leadership .
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