Business intelligence (BI) and analytics leaders need to embrace mobile BI, social collaboration and pro-active analysis, says Gartner.
"The market for BI and analytics is undergoing gradual evolution," says Neil Chandler, research director at Gartner.
"By 2014, the metamorphosis of BI from IT-owned and report-centric will be virtually complete for a large number of organisations.
“These organisations will change what types of BI and analytics they use. They will change how they procure them and where they procure them from, and they will modify how information feeds decision making.”
Year of the iPad
As part of its Predicts 2011 report, Gartner has identified four key BI predictions. According to the research firm, by 2013, 33% of BI functionality will be consumed via handheld devices.
Gartner explains that BI vendors are increasingly developing mobile analytic applications. Gartner analysts claim mobile BI on tablets such as the iPad will attract significant investment. BI Web dashboards are already being placed on the iPad and iPhone by the likes of MicroStrategy and QlikView.
Nick Forde, mobile solutions specialist at MicroStrategy in Europe, Middle East and Africa, agrees with Gartner and states Apple's iPad is more than just a consumer gadget and that it is a disruptive technology that will be increasingly adopted in BI applications.
“Enterprises have moved quickly during the past two to three years to create applications for mobile devices, as the market as a whole has moved sharply toward a mobile' always on' mode of interaction.”
Collaborative BI
Another major trend Gartner identified is that by 2013, 15% of BI deployments will combine BI, collaboration and social software into decision-making environments.
In its report, Gartner says: “Organisations are starting to piece together collaboration technology, social software and BI to create collaborative decision making environments.
“During the next 12 to 18 months, collaborative decision environments will drive investment in new BI and analytic applications.” Gartner says that a number of vendors are beginning to address this challenge.
The research firm predicts that by 2014, 30% of analytic applications will use in-memory functions to add scale and computational speed. By 2014, 30% of analytic applications will use proactive, predictive and forecasting capabilities.
In addition, by 2014, 40% of spending on business analytics will go to system integrators, not software vendors, Gartner notes.
It also indicates the growth of user-driven initiatives, external information sources and the integration of unstructured content make the traditional BI approach increasingly risky and potentially uncompetitive.
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