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THE FINDINGS

Data provided by

2012 Aberdeen Group.

www.aberdeen.com

The reports are clear: Interactive BI allows for agility in the face of decreasing business

response time. Forty-four percent of the organizations that use just interactive BI tools

are always able to provide business managers with the information they need, in the

timeframe required. This holds true for just 17 percent of the organizations that rely

solely on traditional BI.

Companies that have complemented their traditional BI solutions with the interactive

approach are almost 50 percent more likely to consistently meet the needs of business

managers than those that rely solely on traditional BI solutions. A highly visual approach

to BI can liberate business managers and transform their decision-making by ensuring

they have access to the right information at the right time.

Best-in-Class Laggard

TAILOR DASHBOARDS

65% 22% Best-in-Class LaggardALLOW DATA MASH-UP

Percentage ofself-service users

Percentage ofpower users

60% 28%

CRACKINGTHE CODEBEHIND FASTBUSINESSINTELLIGENCE

As information demand and data volume continue to grow, organizations are

faced with the challenge of analyzing and disseminating that information in a

timely manner. Thats why Best-in-Class companies already are adopting

visual discovery over traditional Business Intelligence (BI), resulting inresponsive, self-service analytics.

AS THE DECISION-MAKINGWINDOW SHRINKS,

AGILITY IS THE KEYIt comes down to getting the right information to the right people at the right time.

We surveyed hundreds of organizations to identify Best-in-Class, industry average

and laggards in information agility. This is based on their ability to find information

needed in the time required, the average elapsed time to add a column to an existing

report, and time to create a new dashboard.

Need agility because of

information demand

Daystobuild anewdashboard

Daysto addcolumn toreport

52%

EXPOSINGTHETRADITIONALBITIMELINE

Time(Days), n=237

INVESTIGATINGTHE

BENEFITSOFINTERACTIVEBIInteractivityallowsfor65%moreBIusers

foreveryITmember

ThiscopyishiddenunderneathblackbarBest-in-Classcompaniesaretwiceas

likelytoturndataintodetailedinformationThisismorecopyhiddenunderblackbar

TwiceasmanyBest-in-Classcompanieshaveinteractivedash

boards

thanLaggards

TraditionalBIItsprimarilycont

rolled,driven

anddeliveredbycorporateIT.

Often,onlystaticviewsof

dataareavailable,andany

changesorenhancements

mustbemadebyIT.

VisualDiscovery

(InteractiveBI)

Businessusersr

eceivea

rich,highlyintera

ctiveand

visualinterface,allo

wing

themtomanipulateand

exploreinformat

iondirectly.

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

44

Visual/InteractiveBI

HOWCOMPANIESARE

ANALYZINGTHEIRDATA

BothTraditionaland

Visual/InteractiveBITraditionalBI

24

17

BUSINESSUSERSWHO

CANTAILOR

BIAREMORELIKEYTO

WORK

FORABEST-IN-CLASS

COMPANY

BIuserswithmanagedreporting

55% 49%

Best-in-C

lass

AllOther

s

BIuserswithinteractivedashboards

60% 34%BIusers

with

visualdatadiscovery

37% 20%

Time(Days),n=237

308

41

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A CLOSER LOOK AT

THE BEST IN CLASS

Best-in-Class companies, already using the most agile and

responsive analytic solutions, are more likely to use dashboards,

in-memory analytics and visual data discovery tools.

Dashboards

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

0% 50%10% 20% 30% 40%

95

75

In-memory analytics Visual data discovery tools

53

55

Respon

den

ts

n=199

n=233

29

Best-in-Class

Industry Average

Laggards

EMPOWERING THEINDIVIDUALTHROUGHINTERAC

TIVITY

47%

35%

31%

30%

23%

16%

Visual/Interactive BI

Traditional BI

Both Traditional andVisual/Interactive BI

Need agility because

of data volume

38%

GETTINGTHERIGHT

TOOLSINTOTHE

RIGHTHANDS

Best-in-Classorganizationsarent

justmorelikelytouseinteractive

tools,theyrealsomorelikelyto

distributethem.Roughly50%

ofBIusersacrosstheboardhave

accesstostatic,traditionalBI,

reporting. However,almosttwice

asmanyBIusershaveaccess

tointeractivedashboardsor

visualdatadiscoverytoolsat

Best-in-Classcompanies.

Formoreinformationon

BI,visitSAPat

sap.com/datavisualization

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