Visual Discovery Tools

April 15, 2013

What is the status of visual discovery tools in your organization?

No plans

Under consideration

Under development

Partially deployed

Fully deployed

10%

24%

18%

30%

19%

Which best describes the scale and scope of your visual discovery deployments?

Not deployed

Departmental

Business unit

Enterprise

Other

3%

25%

29%

39%

5%

How many separate instances of visual discovery tools exist in your organization?

0

1 to 2

3

4 to 5

6 to 10

11 to 20

21+

2%

49%

14%

7%

10%

6%

12%

To what degree has your organization linked separate instances of visual discovery tools?

None - Instances are not linked; each are islands of information

Some - Some instances share data and definitions, but most don't

Most - Most instances share data and definitions, but not all

All - All instances share data and instances

19%

45%

15%

20%

Which data sources are accessed by your visual discovery tools?

Enterprise data warehouse

Local files (e.g. Excel)

Enterprise applications (e.g. ERP)

Departmental data martDepartmental applications

(ERP/CRM)External data

Web services

Hadoop/NoSQL

Other

72%

58%

52%

49%

44%

31%

12%

10%

5%

On average, how many sources of data do your visual discovery tools display within a single application?

1 to 2

3

4 to 5

6 to 10

11 to 20

21+

54%

22%

14%

2%

4%

5%

What is the corporate policy regarding the use of visual discovery tools?

Standardize on the tools for creating enterprise dashboards

No corporate policy needed

Standardize on the tools for business analysts

Standardize on the tools for creating departmental dashboards

Prohibit departments from purchasing the tools

Require the departments to point the tools at the EDW

38%

35%

32%

30%

14%

13%

Which vendors supply you with visual discovery tools?

TableauMicrosoft

QlikTechSAP Business Objects

IBM CognosMicrostrategy

OtherSAS Institute

Tibco SpotfireInformation Builders

SiSenseActuateAdvizorAlteryx

53%35%

30%27%

20%19%

17%12%

9%3%

2%2%

1%1%

Who are the primary users of your visual discovery tools?

Casual users

Power users

Both equally

9%

44%

47%

To what degree do casual users use the following functions in the visual discovery tool? (Only “high” responses displayed)

Monitor predefined metrics

Connect to, explore, and analyze a single data source

Analyze predefined metrics

Connect to, explore, and analyze multiple data source

Conduct what-if analysis

Author and publish dashboards

Enter or update data

Transform, clean, and/or combine data

Apply data mining algorithms (e.g. regressions)

37%

24%

22%

15%

11%

7%

4%

4%

4%

To what degree do power users use the following functions in the visual discovery tool? (Only “high” responses displayed)

Connect to, explore, and analyze a single data source

Connect to, explore, and analyze multiple data source

Analyze predefined metrics

Monitor predefined metrics

Conduct what-if analysis

Author and publish dashboards

Enter or update data

Transform, clean, and/or combine data

Apply data mining algorithms (e.g. regressions)

59%

55%

49%

37%

37%

33%

21%

21%

20%

How do each of the following groups rate the value of visual discovery tools compared to other BI tools in use at your organization?

Much better

Better

Neutral

38%

43%

18%

28%

40%

31%

13%

32%

49%

24%

43%

31%

ExecutivesIT department headsBusiness department headsBusiness users

Which BI tools has your organization officially standardized on?

Reporting/dashboard tool

Ad query/analysis tool

Visual discovery tool

Multidimensional OLAP tool

Real-time analytics/dashboard tool

Data mining tool

87%

70%

56%

45%

31%

21%

To what degree did the following drive the decision to implement visual discovery tools?

Better visualization

Easier to use

Self-service analysis

Fast-changing business requirements

Self-service authoring

Quicker to deploy

Faster queries

Faster data integration

More affordable

78%

77%

66%

53%

51%

51%

45%

33%

25%

To what degree has your organization experienced the following challenges with visual discovery tools?

Complexity - Sourcing data from complex ERP/CRM applications

Consistency - Maintaining data consistency across environments

Funding - Getting executives to expand to fund the installation or expansion of the software

Data quality - Idetnifying and fixing data quality errors

Scalability - Maintaining performance as numbers of users and volume of data increases

Performance - Meeting SLAs for response times

Integration - Integrating the tools with other information environments

33%

33%

32%

31%

27%

21%

21%

What are the future plans for the deployment of visual discovery tools?

Expand deployment

Maintain, but not expand

Decrease deployment

84%

13%

2%

What prevents you from deploying visual discovery tools?

Our budget is tapped out

We already have suitable BI tools

Not a corporate standard

Fear of proliferating spreadmarts

Don't know enough about visual discovery tools

Performance and scalability issues

Other

Not enough value for the price

35%

29%

27%

25%

19%

18%

18%

12%