Mobile BI still making inroads

business intelligence (BI) end-users, reveals that only 8% of companies using BI software are currently accessing reports on mobile devices, EON says.

“With all the buzz around mobile BI at the moment, I expect that many people will be surprised that it has such a low adoption rate,” says Barney Finucane, lead author of the BI Survey 10.

“But I think there are two major reasons for this low figure,” continues Finucane. “Firstly, the heaviest consumers of BI tend to be the folks who spend most of their time deskbound, such as business analysts and report designers. And secondly, the prime candidates for mobile BI usage, namely high-level, jet-setting executives, are often too busy to be running reports on the move, and prefer to be fed them by someone else.”

However, while uptake is still relatively low, 22% of respondents indicated they are planning to implement mobile BI in the next 12 months, and a further 27% are planning to implement the technology in the long run, Market Watch writes.

Another surprising finding was that company politics is now the most frequent problem encountered in BI projects, with 20% of BI buyers citing it as an issue.

This eclipses last year's most commonly reported problem, poor data quality (16%), and administrative problems (15%).

Elsewhere, 59% of BI buyers said they had conducted a multi-product competitive evaluation before purchasing, up over 10% on last year, Business Wire reveals.

And those buyers were found to have realised significantly more business benefits from their BI implementations than organisations that had only formally evaluated a single product, or none at all.

The BI Survey 10 attracted nearly 3 000 responses, and this year's report analyses a record 26 products from vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SAS, MicroStrategy and QlikTech.