Cloud Computing: 5 Big Business Intelligence Trends For 2014

January 19, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Cindi Howson.

Visual data discovery, cloud computing, and mobile lead the BI trends to watch in 2014. Take a closer look.

What’s in store for business intelligence in 2014? In some respects, 2014 will echo themes heard in 2013, but the message is getting louder when it comes to visual data discovery, cloud, and mobile. Big data also will continue to garner attention, but people will take a pragmatic approach to adoption. Simplicity, meanwhile, will experience a second coming…

Visual data discovery and self-service BI

Visual data discovery took center stage in 2013, with specialty vendors (Tableau, QlikView, TIBCO Spotfire) growing rapidly, and mega vendors (SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, MicroStrategy, SAS) stagnating. BI heavyweights have taken notice that agile, visual solutions have eaten into their bread-and-butter query-and-reporting market share. All responded with new interfaces and solutions. The initial visual data discovery releases from the mega vendors tended to have limited capabilities, but the gap is slowly closing. The specialty vendors and the heavyweights are trying to find the right balance between agile analysis and trusted data. It has to be a user-driven experience but with IT control over the data. It’s not an easy line to straddle…

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