The Top 5 BI Shifts How 2014 Won’t Be Like 2013

2014 will be about practical applications of technology to get real value out of data.

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And a growing necessity for average users to answer large and complex data questions.

The 5 Predictions

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This year, size won’t matter.

•  It’s not about how much data you can store, but how much value you can get out of it.

•  Companies will look to give employees interactive access to all the data they need.

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Companies will put data in the hands of employees.

•  Self-service will extend into larger and more complex datasets.

•  Agile BI will allow employees across departments to navigate complex inter-relationships within the data.

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This is the year of data collaboration.

•  Teams will build on one another’s work and make smarter choices based on data.

•  BI will move out from under weighty BI tools and into the real world, allowing users to jump from narrative to hard facts and vice-versa.

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Data analysts will get modern tools.

•  Client-server architectures will give way to a new breed of data exploration environments.

•  BI tools peddling 1990s user interfaces and click-box purgatories will become obsolete.

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Traditional data warehousing paradigms will continue to die

•  Legacy BI platforms built around the expense of old relic databases (like Oracle) will give way to environments enabled by the capabilities of new-era analytics datastores.

•  ETL will yield to data discovery and agile BI approaches, such as Transform-at-Query, enabling users to explore and drill complex data in a meaningful way.

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