The changing BI landscape

After years of relative stability, the world of business intelligence is now experiencing a sea change. The old rules of thumb no longer apply and companies cannot assume that yesterday’s BI strategies continue to be viable.

There are fundamental shifts that are currently occurring in businesses and for users that include: placing more stock in number crunching and objectively measuring performance; users interacting with personal data more and more; new tools just as Facebook, Gmail and other more specialised solutions raising expectations for end users; and in short, businesses deriving genuine business insight from large quantities of data more quickly and for dramatically less cost and effort than ever earlier.

These rule changes mean that businesses need to make fact-based decisions, based on analysis of data from a variety of data sources, in ways never previously possible, whereas users want a compelling, effective experience. At Jaspersoft, we have identified seven new trends that are currently occurring in BI that will impact the way we use BI henceforth.