Who Manages and Governs Data for Decision-Making? In earlier articles, we have seen that 68% of respondents believe that information will be highly valued for decision-making in the future, but that deficiencies in the availability of information and data quality are major inhibitors to using information. Since decisions based on information can only be as good as the […]
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Big Data Benefits Exceed Expectations Before a big data project, companies need to ask themselves a very important question: What do we want to get out of this? It is not easy to answer, especially because big data is still relatively new and empirical data about experiences with it is limited. To shed some light on the
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Self-service business intelligence (BI) has been on organizations’ wish lists for a long time, and data from the BARC BI Trend Monitor 2017 confirms that it is still a high priority. The ever-growing demand is a result of business users’ need for more flexibility and self-reliance in reporting and analysis. What Is Self-Service BI? Self-service BI is a trend with
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How Many Data Sources Do Companies Rely On For Decision-Making? Using internal and external data is an essential element in good decision-making. Companies that use more internal and external data sources possess a greater range of possibilities for data analysis. But how many internal and external data sources are companies using for decision-making? To find out,
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Companies Still Rely Heavily on Standard BI Tools for Big Data Analytics, but Change Is in the Air For a long time, discussions about big data have centered around its technical aspects but now the focus has switched to actual usage scenarios. Nevertheless, the technologies and tools companies use for big data is still highly
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How Much of the Information Available to Businesses Is Actually Used? Our data shows that almost half of all business decisions made are based on gut feel rather than data. The primary reason for this is missing information. But even when all the relevant information is available, are companies making full use of it? We asked our
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Visualization and explorative data analysis for business users (known as data discovery) have evolved into the hottest business intelligence and analytics topic in today’s market. 2,800 BI professionals confirmed its importance for the second year in a row in BARC’s BI Trend Monitor 2017. In this article, we will explain our view on data discovery and
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Study findings based on a survey of over 330 participants from more than 50 countries
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In-depth analysis of how and where business intelligence is deployed Deployment of Business Intelligence Tools The concept of pervasive BI refers to the idea that as many employees as possible should use business intelligence tools. The goal is to provide every employee with the right information at the right time so they can make better-informed decisions in
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How Many Business Decisions Are Based On Gut Feel Rather Than Data? Lately, there has been a lot of buzz around the idea of data-driven decision-making in businesses, with many organizations apparently striving towards the ideal of basing all business decisions on data. We wanted to find out if this is just an ideal, or whether
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