13 BI SURVEY Partici pan
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13 BI SURVEY Partici pan
The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary THE 1 BI SURVEY 13 The Customer Verdict The world’s largest survey of business intelligence software users A summary of key findings from The BI Survey 13 produced exclusively for Survey participants Participant Summary Not to be quoted without permission from the publisher. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 2 Table of contents Survey background ................................................................................................... 3 Objectives for the data sample............................................................................... 3 A large and varied sample ..................................................................................... 3 Unbiased ............................................................................................................... 4 The Sample ............................................................................................................... 4 Sample size and make-up ..................................................................................... 5 Geographical distribution ....................................................................................... 6 Organization sizes by headcount ........................................................................... 6 Featured products ..................................................................................................... 9 Peer groups ......................................................................................................... 13 Vertical markets and products by industry ........................................................... 16 Business Benefits and the BBI ................................................................................ 18 BBI by peer group and vendor ............................................................................. 20 Goal Achievement ................................................................................................... 27 Deployment ............................................................................................................. 31 Usage in different company sizes ........................................................................ 31 Percentage of BI users in companies................................................................... 34 BI usage by department ....................................................................................... 36 The selection process ............................................................................................. 38 Reasons to buy .................................................................................................... 38 Implementing BI and Satisfaction ............................................................................ 43 Implementation time ............................................................................................ 43 Support ................................................................................................................ 46 Problems in BI projects ........................................................................................ 49 Trending topics in BI................................................................................................ 52 Our approach to analyzing trends ........................................................................ 53 The frequent inaccuracy of plans ......................................................................... 53 Status and plans for trending BI topics................................................................. 54 2 3 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Survey background The BI Survey 13 follows on from 11 successful editions of The BI - and former OLAP - Surveys. This edition has a wider range of products than in previous years, including not only products from the well-known BI giants, but also specialist products from much smaller vendors and open source vendors. The BI Survey provides a detailed quantitative analysis of why customers buy BI tools, what they use them for, how successful they are and why they eventually abandon them. The Survey is based on the analysis of the real-world experience of 3,149 respondents. The value of a survey like this depends on having a sufficiently large, well-distributed and unbiased sample. This section describes the characteristics of the people who took part in the study and how we recruited them. Objectives for the data sample We had a number of specific objectives when compiling the sample. It must: Be large, for statistical reliability Include viable samples from as many BI products as possible Be well distributed Be unbiased. A large and varied sample The BI Survey 13 has the largest sample of any survey of business intelligence users available on the market. While a sample of 500 respondents may seem impressive and statistically acceptable, the problem comes when trying to compare sub-samples for, say, individual products. The BI Survey has a rule that, as far as possible, only sub-samples containing 30 or more data points should be reported. It is easy to get sub-samples larger than this for the more widely-used products, but less easy for others. Sometimes it is surprisingly difficult to find viable sample sizes for products even from large vendors, such as Oracle. This means that the overall sample needs to be at least 1000 in order to obtain useful sub-samples. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 4 Unbiased To produce unbiased results we encouraged all vendors to promote The Survey, eliminating the risk of a small number of vendors encouraging their favored customers to participate without our knowledge. This year a number of vendors promoted The BI Survey 13 through their public websites, and many emailed not just their customers, but also their prospects. It transpires that many vendors’ mailing lists include not just their own customers, but also prospective customers who may well be current or previous users of other vendors’ products. This meant that we obtained adequate samples even from customers of vendors who did not promote The Survey. We thank the vendors for the professional way in which they collaborated in this venture, and none attempted to influence the questionnaire or the analysis and presentation of the data. We are always aware that some vendors could be tempted to enter data themselves, purporting to be genuine customers. Vendors are warned that if we discover or examples of this practice, all entries that come via their invitation will be removed from The Survey. We apply increasingly stringent data cleansing rules, using a number of different tests. This year we detected an increase in the number of examples of suspect data that purported to be from user sites. All such data was removed from the sample. The Sample Most surveys are conducted or sponsored by an organization based in, and focused on, one country. This means that most of the sample tends to be from that country. However, BI is a worldwide market and we wanted, as far as possible, to capture a large international sample. This not only presents a more accurate global picture, but also allows international variations to be analyzed. The three largest BI markets are the US, Germany and the UK, so The BI Survey 13 was produced as a collaboration between organizations in each of these countries, and in partnership with publishers and vendors in these and other countries. It features not just the well-known US products, but also products from other regions including Europe and Australia. 4 5 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Europe 64% North America 23% Asia and Pacific 9% ROW 2% South America 2% Figure 1: Respondents anal yzed b y region (n= 2297) The net result was an extraordinarily international panel. Respondents were located in 69 countries. Five countries had 100 or more respondents, and eight had 50 or more; 25 countries had ten or more respondents. Sample size and make-up Hundreds of thousands of people around the world were invited to participate in The BI Survey 13, using dozens of email lists, magazines, social media and websites. As in previous years, the questionnaire offered different sets of questions for vendors and users (or consultants answering on behalf of a user). This seems to produce better quality data as in the past some vendors pretended to be users when they saw they were not being asked relevant questions. Participants from last year who indicated that they would like to be part of our panel received a prefilled questionnaire with answers from last year’s questions that had remained the same. They were asked to update their responses, and then to answer the new questions in this year’s Survey. The results of the online data collected are shown in the following chart, with the numbers of responses removed also displayed. Total responses Filtered during data cleansing Remaining after data cleansing Not yet considered buying Total answering questions Responses 3149 100% -175 -6% 2974 94% -106 -3% 2868 91% Figure 2: Responses removed from the samples The number of responses is split between users, consultants and vendors. Vendors answered a different set of questions to those answered by end users. This document focuses on the analysis of the user results. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 6 User Consultant All users Vendor/Reseller Responses 2015 283 2298 570 70% 10% 80% 20% Figure 3: Response t ypes for final anal ysis Geographical distribution One of the key objectives of The Survey is to achieve a geographically balanced sample that reflects the current global market for BI products. Therefore we cover four languages in the online questionnaire: English, German, French and Spanish. Having a geographically-balanced sample has two major benefits: Firstly, results of The Survey are more closely representative of the world market, rather than being largely based on US experience, as is the case with many other surveys. In regions where knowledge of English is sparse, such as South America and much of Asia and southern Europe, it is difficult to get good coverage and the BI market is less mature in these countries. Since the fourth edition of The BI Survey, we have significantly boosted the German sample by specifically targeting users in Germanspeaking countries, using a fully translated on-line questionnaire. A Spanish language questionnaire was included to boost responses from Spain and Latin America. We also used a French questionnaire, increasing our European coverage even more. Organization sizes by headcount BI products are most commonly found in large organizations and a high percentage of the responses we receive are from users in companies with more than 2500 employees. Nevertheless, responses from small organizations have been catching up over the years. The split between respondents from small and large enterprises is well-balanced this year. 6 7 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Less than 100 14% 100 - 2500 More than 2500 53% 33% Figure 4: Frequenc y of emplo yee count in respondent organization (n=2266) The following chart shows the median headcount of respondents’ companies analyzed by the product they reported on. Of the products defined in the ‘Enterprise Reporting’ and ‘Large International Vendors’ peer groups there was a higher median number of employees in customer organizations than the sample average. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 8 Oracle Essbase SAP BO WebI Oracle BI Foundation Suite SAP BW SAS MicroStrategy Arcplan IBM Cognos TM1 IBM Cognos BI Infor Information Builders Tableau QlikTech Microsoft SSAS Microsoft SSRS All Pyramid Cubeware BOARD Bissantz Cyberscience Dimensional Insight Microsoft Excel Jedox Evidanza TARGIT Pentaho Corporate Planning Logi Analytics Phocas Yellowfin 9,500 5,000 4,500 4,500 3,750 3,500 3,490 3,000 2,250 1,600 1,600 1,300 1,225 1,000 1,000 1,000 838 800 690 600 500 500 500 400 275 250 225 200 150 125 88 Figure 5: Median emplo yee count of user organizations anal yzed b y product Here we see one outlier on the high side: Oracle Essbase which is deployed in large enterprises in our sample. 8 9 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Featured products When grouping and describing the products featured in The BI Survey, we did not strictly follow the naming conventions that the vendors use. In some cases, we combined various products to make analysis more convenient. In those cases, we named these groups of products as shown in Figure 6. Note that the names we use in this document are our own and are not always the official product names used by the vendors. One of the key reasons for this is that the products we analyze are not necessarily the latest version of the tool. Vendors often change the product name between versions, making it difficult to have a single official name for several versions of the same product. Another reason is that we sometimes bundle related products into a single group to increase the sample size, even if the vendor prefers to view them as distinct for marketing reasons. In both of these cases, the point is not to challenge the naming conventions of the vendor, but simply to reduce the complexity of the Survey findings for the convenience of the reader. In some cases, we also shorten the names of the products to improve the formatting of the charts. We asked respondents explicitly about their experiences with products from a predefined list, with the option to nominate other products. This list is updated each year and is based on the sample size of the products in the previous year, as well as additional new products that we see in the market. In cases where respondents said they were using an ‘other’ product, but from the context it was clear that they were actually using one of the listed products, we reclassified their data accordingly. We solicited responses on all surviving products with more than a minimal response in the last Survey, plus a few others whose numbers have potentially grown to the point where there is enough data to be analyzed. The following table shows the products that we included in the detailed analysis. The number of the ‘other’ responses is also included in this chart. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 10 Product labels Detailed product list Respondents Bissantz arcplan Enterprise insight/dynaSight Bissantz DeltaMaster BOARD BOARD 74 Corporate Planning Corporate Planner 34 Cubeware Cubeware Cockpit 88 Cyberscience Cyberscience Cyberquery 60 Dimensional Insight Diver Solution 61 Evidanza Evidanza 29 arcplan IBM Cognos BI IBM Cognos TM1 IBM Cognos BI (Cognos 8 and 10) IBM Cognos Insight IBM Cognos TM1 IBM Cognos Express 98 92 96 51 Infor Infor10 ION BI 85 Information Builders Information Builders WebFOCUS 52 Jedox Logi Analytics Microsoft Excel Jedox Base Jedox Premium Logi Ad Hoc Logi Info Microsoft Excel (Excel only, with no additional database) 127 41 44 Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Ecosystem: Microsoft Excel with MS SSAS Microsoft SSAS Microsoft PivotTables Services 145 Microsoft SharePoint Server Excel Services Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) with SSAS Microsoft SSRS Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 50 MicroStrategy MicroStrategy 128 Oracle Essbase Oracle Essbase Oracle Hyperion Planning 54 Oracle BI Foundation Suite Oracle BI Foundation Suite (including OBIEE) 47 Pentaho Pentaho 36 Phocas Phocas Professional Phocas Express 68 Pyramid Pyramid Analytics 45 QlikTech QlikTech QlikView 178 SAP BO WebI SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 71 10 11 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary SAP BW SAP Business Explorer (BEx) SAP BW Integrated Planning (SAP BW IP) SAP BW 103 SAP Web Application Designer (WAD) SAS Base SAS Enterprise BI SAS 36 SAS Visual Analytics Tableau Tableau Desktop 48 TARGIT TARGIT BI Suite 62 Yellowfin Yellowfin 30 TOTAL 2133 Others See complete list 133 Figure 6: Products included in the sample (excluding don’t know ) The last five years have seen an increase in the proportion of German respondents. This is partly due to cooperation with German vendors and the presence of strong German subsidiaries of international vendors, reflected through products like arcplan, Bissantz, BOARD, Cubeware and SAP. Furthermore, this year we also included some new products such as Logi Analytics, Pyramid Analytics and Corporate Planning. The following table contains the products that had responses but are not included in the detailed analysis. In the BI Survey Analyzer these products are grouped together under the label ‘Others’. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 12 Other products Actuate BIRT Report Studio/ActuateOne Adaptive Planning Decisyon Dodeca Host Analytics Jaspersoft MeLLmo Roambi Microsoft PowerPivot Microsoft Power View MIK MyReport Panorama Prevero Prevero Professional Planer (formerly Winterheller) Prophix Quantrix Modeler Reportive SAP BusinessObjects Analysis (for OLAP or Office) SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard (formerly Xcelsius) SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Tagetik Tibco Spotfire Other BI product Figure 7: Products in the sample but not in the detailed anal ysis 12 13 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Peer groups This year we reduced the number of peer groups in The Survey. Peer groups are used to ensure similar products are compared against each other both in fairness to the vendor and for the benefit of the end user. The groups are essential to allow fair and useful comparisons of products that are likely to compete. The peer groups are primarily based on the results from The Survey, how customers say they use the product and our knowledge of the products. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 14 Products by peer group Arcplan Bissantz BOARD Corporate Planner Cubeware Cyberscience Dimensional Insight Evidanza IBM Cognos BI IBM Cognos TM1 Infor Information Builders Jedox Logi Analytics Microsoft Excel Microsoft SSAS Microsoft SSRS MicroStrategy Oracle Essbase Oracle BI Foundation Suite Pentaho Phocas Pyramid QlikTech SAP BW SAP BO WebI SAS Tableau TARGIT Yellowfin Large international vendors Enterprise Reporting x Dashboard x Ad-hoc analysis OLAP Analysis x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Visual Analysis & Data Discovery x Performance Management x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Figure 8: Products b y peer group matrix x x x x x x x x 14 15 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Peer groups are simply a guide to the reader to help make the products easier to understand and to show why individual products return such disparate results. They are not intended to be a judgment of the quality of the products. Some products appear in more than one peer group. The peer groups are defined using the criteria described in the following table. These peer groups are used in a consistent way in our analysis as well as in The BI Survey Analyzer. Peer group Large International Vendors Description The ‘Large International Vendors’ peer group includes companies with annual revenues of $200m+ and a truly international reach Enterprise Reporting The ‘Enterprise Reporting’ peer group includes products that can provide standard formatted reporting in a large scale enterprise situation (i.e. thousands of users served by a scalable reporting server) Dashboard The ‘Dashboard’ peer group includes products that are focused on creating advanced dashboards The ‘Ad-hoc Analysis’ peer group includes products that are focused on ad-hoc analysis The ‘OLAP Analysis’ peer group includes products that support analysis in dimensional and hierarchical data models, usually supported by dimensional databases OLAP Analysis (e.g. financial controlling, performance measurement systems) providing self-service capabilities to business users The ‘Visual Analysis & Data Discovery’ peer group includes products that provide advanced visualization features (e.g. heat maps, scatter plots). Usually these Visual Analysis & Data tools support set-based analysis to filter and analyze Discovery properties of data sets with many records and many attributes (e.g. customer segmentation for campaign management) The ‘Performance Management’ peer group includes Performance Management products that serve companies whose projects are predominantly planning projects Ad-hoc Analysis Figure 9: Peer group descriptions The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 16 Vertical markets and products by industry Our analysis shows that some products have a distinct vertical bias. The following table provides an overview of product use by industry sector. Experience shows that Financial Services Manufacturing Public sector Retail & Wholesale Services Telecommunications Transport Utilities Other these values tend to vary from year to year. Arcplan 4% 51% 8% 6% 17% 0% 4% 5% 4% Bissantz 2% 48% 0% 18% 18% 0% 1% 2% 10% BOARD 8% 57% 7% 5% 8% 1% 4% 3% 7% Corporate Planning 0% 32% 6% 15% 24% 0% 6% 6% 12% Cubeware 8% 44% 5% 13% 22% 1% 5% 0% 3% Cyberscience 2% 63% 3% 3% 20% 3% 2% 0% 3% Dimensional Insight 10% 23% 2% 23% 26% 0% 5% 0% 11% Evidanza 0% 38% 0% 24% 31% 0% 3% 3% 0% IBM Cognos BI 18% 32% 6% 9% 25% 2% 4% 1% 2% IBM Cognos TM1 10% 29% 2% 10% 12% 6% 18% 6% 8% Infor 7% 49% 0% 8% 12% 1% 6% 7% 9% Information Builders 15% 19% 19% 4% 23% 2% 8% 4% 6% Jedox 5% 35% 6% 9% 36% 2% 3% 2% 4% Logi Analytics 7% 39% 5% 5% 22% 5% 7% 5% 5% Microsoft Excel 11% 34% 5% 9% 20% 2% 5% 9% 5% Microsoft SSAS 12% 38% 6% 7% 22% 5% 3% 4% 3% Microsoft SSRS 16% 42% 8% 2% 16% 2% 0% 8% 6% MicroStrategy 23% 22% 3% 16% 19% 7% 2% 4% 5% Oracle Essbase 11% 30% 6% 22% 15% 9% 2% 2% 4% Oracle BI Foundation Suite 17% 23% 6% 15% 21% 4% 6% 4% 2% Pentaho 8% 25% 3% 8% 36% 8% 3% 6% 3% Phocas 0% 49% 0% 37% 9% 1% 3% 0% 1% Pyramid 42% 27% 0% 4% 20% 2% 0% 0% 4% QlikTech 7% 41% 4% 12% 25% 2% 5% 2% 2% SAP BW 8% 36% 5% 9% 17% 2% 7% 12% 5% SAP BO WebI 20% 18% 7% 11% 14% 10% 8% 7% 4% SAS 33% 14% 14% 0% 28% 0% 3% 3% 6% Tableau 19% 13% 4% 4% 40% 8% 6% 4% 2% TARGIT 3% 35% 6% 19% 13% 0% 5% 8% 10% Yellowfin 7% 43% 3% 7% 27% 0% 3% 3% 7% Total average 11% 36% 5% 11% 21% 3% 4% 4% 5% Figure 10: Product use anal yzed b y industr y (n=2133) 17 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Notable results from the ‘product use analyzed by industry’ table: The manufacturing sector has the highest total average usage across all products of 36%. This is followed by the services sector (21%). A little further behind is Retail & Wholesale (11%) followed by Financial Services (11%) 57% of BOARD sites and 63% of Cyberscience sites are in the manufacturing sector 42% of Pyramid Analytics sites are in the finance sector 37% of wholesale and retail sites surveyed use Phocas 40% of Tableau sites are in services The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 18 Business Benefits and the BBI The BI Survey asks key questions about the benefits produced by BI projects. Respondents are asked to indicate the level of achievement gained from a list of eleven potential benefits. A scoring system is then used to derive a composite weighted score for each benefit, based on the level of benefit achieved. This system is called the BBI (Business Benefits Index). For further information on the calculation methods used, see the ‘Sample, Products and Methodology’ document. Figure 11 shows the overall breakdown of responses to the Business Benefits questions. The six levels of achievement, along with their weightings, are shown on the horizontal axis. Results are RAG (red, amber, green) rated with green indicating Weighting Weighted score Don't know Got worse/more expensive (-6) Not achieved (-2) Informally suspected (3) Formally claimed, but not verified (5) Proven, but not measured (8) Proven and quantified (10) higher scores and red denoting lower scores. Better business decisions 10 6 5 3 24.7% 41.4% 13.0% 11.7% -2 2.2% -6 0.1% 6.8% 6.74 Faster reporting, analysis or planning 42.7% 37.8% 7.9% 5.2% 2.3% 0.3% 3.9% 7.78 Improved customer satisfaction 16.1% 29.5% 13.1% 16.3% 5.2% 0.4% 19.6% 4.98 Improved data quality 27.6% 33.3% 10.8% 11.7% 7.1% 0.0% 9.6% 6.13 Improved employee satisfaction 20.8% 35.2% 13.2% 15.5% 5.3% 0.6% 9.3% 5.88 9.4% 11.1% 11.0% 20.1% 10.2% 0.2% 38.0% 2.76 More accurate reporting, analysis or planning 31.5% 39.3% 9.4% 10.5% 2.5% 0.2% 6.7% 7.01 Reduced external IT costs 15.3% 13.5% 7.3% 12.1% 16.8% 5.2% 29.7% 2.69 Saved business headcount 10.9% 9.2% 6.7% 12.0% 26.3% 1.1% 33.8% 1.93 Saved IT headcount 9.0% 7.9% 4.9% 9.0% 31.6% 3.3% 34.3% 1.22 Saved other non-IT costs 7.7% 10.2% 6.7% 14.6% 17.1% 1.0% 42.8% 1.96 Increased revenues 0 Figure 11: Frequenc y of Business Benefits (n= 2267) Figure 12 shows business benefits listed in order of the most commonly achieved. 19 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Faster reporting, analysis or planning 7.78 More accurate reporting, analysis or planning 7.01 Better business decisions 6.74 Improved data quality 6.13 Improved employee satisfaction 5.88 Improved customer satisfaction 4.98 Increased revenues 2.76 Reduced external IT costs 2.69 Saved other non-IT costs 1.96 Saved business headcount 1.93 Saved IT headcount 1.22 Figure 12: BBI scores for Business Benefits achievement (n= 2267) Figure 12 Key Findings: Overall, ‘Faster reporting, analysis or planning’ is rated higher than accuracy and more than 80 percent of respondents stated that faster reporting, analysis and planning had been achieved. 71 percent reported that ‘More accurate reporting, analysis and planning’ had been proven and 66 percent of respondents said that ‘Better business decisions’ was another benefit likely to be achieved. The ability to make better business decisions is a highly desirable benefit. However, it is a benefit that cannot be accurately scoped when developing a project’s business case. While all BI projects would hope to gain this benefit, few projects would be cost-justified against the possibility that it ‘might’ one day be achieved. ‘Improved data quality’ is a benefit that can be measured directly. Although often one of the more difficult factors to achieve in a business intelligence project, it ranked fourth in the list followed by ‘Employee satisfaction’ a benefit that typically arises when users have fast access to data and reports. ‘Customer satisfaction’ can be seen as an ‘external effect’ of business intelligence and it is good to see that 75 percent of respondents at least suspect that they achieve this benefit. The benefits with the lowest level of achievement were ‘Saved headcount in IT departments’, ‘Saved headcount in business departments’, ‘Saved non-IT The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 20 costs’ and ‘Reduced external IT costs’. This is in line with our experience that companies are still looking to extend their BI capabilities and adding resources to implement and run them. If BI were a mature and saturated market we would see more investment in replacing existing systems but until this pattern changes we would not expect savings in headcount and costs to move up the list of benefits. This year the overall BBI decreased slightly from 4.62 (last year) to 4.46. In 2011 the overall BBI average was 4.89. There could be many reasons for this downward trend. Perhaps Business Intelligence users are becoming more skeptical, or more realistic, about the benefits they can achieve and measure. BBI by peer group and vendor The difference between business benefit achievement according to the type of product in use is reflected in the following chart. In order to compare product types we group products into specific peer groups as explained in the ‘Sample, Products and Methodologies’ document. Visual Analysis and Data Discovery 4.70 Dashboard 4.67 Ad-hoc analysis 4.41 Performance Management 4.39 OLAP Analysis 4.38 Enterprise Reporting 4.36 Large International Vendors 4.27 Figure 13: Business benefits anal yzed b y peer group (n= 2133) Visual Analysis & Data Discovery tools achieved the best BBI results. This reflects their user-friendliness and flexibility in allowing end-users to quickly load data, perform user analysis and take advantage of advanced visualization features. Dashboard vendors rank second and Ad-hoc analysis products rank third. Again, the user-friendly nature of these tools contributes to the business benefits achieved. This is a result we have consistently observed in previous editions of The BI Survey. Specialists, or smaller vendors, tend to achieve better BBI results than the larger international vendors and Enterprise Reporting vendors. There is a straight correlation between the size of the BI project (measured in data volume used or 21 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary number of users served) and the size of the tool vendor. With few exceptions, smaller vendors serve smaller projects and products from larger vendors are used in larger projects. In our opinion, there are several reasons for the good results achieved by smaller and specialist vendors: Some customers may achieve more business benefits when working with smaller vendors with whom they have a close working relationship, compared to the more arm’s-length, impersonal relationship that users tend to have with large vendors. Survey results show that users usually experience better vendor support, satisfaction and recommendation working with smaller vendors than they do with many of the large vendors. The prospect of smaller vendors being removed from a company more quickly if projects are not successful leads to better-than-average results for the ones that remain in use. Conversely, large vendors are able to keep customers with whom they have long-term, strategic relationships, even if individual projects or products deliver disappointing results. Products from small vendors are more likely to be selected in competitive evaluations. Users expending more effort selecting solutions show a higher level of benefit achievement. This could be because the extra diligence taken to ensure that the product fits their needs increases the probability of the project delivering business benefits. There is also the simple fact that some projects are managed better than others. But, for whatever reason, it is clear that the customers of small vendors such as Yellowfin, Tableau, TARGIT and Arcplan are reporting more business benefits than those of larger vendors such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. This said, several products from large vendors report above-average BBI scores, most notably the multidimensional databases Oracle Essbase, IBM TM1 and Microsoft SSAS. Figure 14 shows the business benefits scores for all products in the Large International Vendors peer group. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 22 Information Builders Oracle Essbase Microsoft SSRS Microsoft SSAS MicroStrategy QlikTech IBM Cognos TM1 Microsoft Excel SAP BW IBM Cognos BI Infor SAS Oracle BI Found. Suite SAP BO WebI 5.12 4.83 4.76 4.71 4.48 4.46 4.30 4.07 3.98 3.97 3.83 3.80 3.62 3.32 Figure 14: Business benefits for the Large International Vendors peer group (n=1140) The Large International Vendors peer group includes companies with annual revenues of more than $200 million and a truly international reach. These tools are usually used in enterprise scenarios. Information Builders is ranked first and the multi-dimensional database Oracle Essbase comes second, while the traditional ROLAP tools from SAP and Oracle deliver the least business benefits. In previous editions of The BI Survey the in-memory technologies (either open multidimensional databases or proprietary technologies like QlikTech’s QlikView) have usually appeared in the top five. This trend has been bucked since a number of the large vendors have invested in new database and caching technologies as well as more user-friendly tools. The correlation between business benefits and user self-service, as well as fast query performance, has also been a feature of previous BI Surveys. 23 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Arcplan 5.29 Yellowfin 5.28 Information Builders 5.12 Microsoft SSRS 4.76 MicroStrategy 4.48 Evidanza 4.11 SAP BW 3.98 IBM Cognos BI 3.97 Oracle BI Found. Suite SAP BO WebI 3.62 3.32 Figure 15: Business benefits for the Enterprise Reporting peer group (n=704) The Enterprise Reporting peer group includes products that can provide standard formatted reporting in a large-scale enterprise situation. Arcplan and Yellowfin, both very flexible tools for designing reporting applications, rank highest in this peer group, followed by the specialist reporting tools from Information Builders and Microsoft. Users of the large vendors SAP, Oracle and IBM report lower business benefits. Tableau 5.56 Arcplan 5.29 Yellowfin 5.28 Information Builders 5.12 Dimensional Insight 4.99 BOARD 4.54 MicroStrategy 4.48 QlikTech 4.46 Evidanza 4.11 Logi Analytics 4.08 Oracle BI Found. Suite 3.62 Figure 16: Business benefits for the Dashboard vendor peer group (n= 786) The Dashboard peer group includes products geared towards creating advanced dashboards. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 24 Users of tools from small vendors report the highest business benefit scores in the Dashboard peer group. This group is led by Tableau. Arcplan comes second followed by Yellowfin. All three leading vendors focus on flexibility and visualization. Pentaho 5.42 TARGIT 5.19 Oracle Essbase 4.83 Microsoft SSAS 4.71 Bissantz 4.66 BOARD 4.54 Insgesamt 4.38 IBM Cognos TM1 4.30 Jedox 4.26 Pyramid 4.04 Cubeware 4.00 SAP BW 3.98 IBM Cognos BI 3.97 Infor 3.83 Figure 17: Business benefits for the OLAP Anal ysis peer group (n= 1058) The OLAP Analysis peer group includes products that support analysis in dimensional and hierarchical data models. This peer group is crowded and highly competitive with many vendors achieving good results. The peer group is led by Pentaho followed by TARGIT, Oracle Essbase and Microsoft SSAS. It is interesting to see the commercial open source vendor Pentaho, with its OLAP server Mondrian, leading the field. The low overall business benefit achievement for Infor is surprising since users rate the product highly in several other categories including product satisfaction and self-service BI. Tableau 5.56 TARGIT 5.19 Phocas 5.06 Dimensional Insight 4.99 Cyberscience 4.56 QlikTech Pyramid SAS 4.46 4.04 3.80 Figure 18: Business benefits for the Visual Analysis & Data Discover y peer group (n=558) 25 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary The Visual Analysis & Data Discovery peer group includes products that provide advanced visualization features. Tableau comes out top in this small peer group of specialist vendors followed by TARGIT and Phocas. One of the most successful BI vendors over the last five years, QlikTech has slipped back into the pack in sixth place. Arcplan 5.29 Oracle Essbase 4.83 Bissantz 4.66 BOARD 4.54 IBM Cognos TM1 4.30 Jedox 4.26 Evidanza 4.11 Microsoft Excel 4.07 Cubeware 4.00 Infor 3.83 Corporate Planning 3.80 Figure 19: Business benefits for the Performance Management peer group (n=776) The Performance Management peer group includes companies whose products are predominantly used in planning projects. The peer group is led by Arcplan, a vendor that has invested heavily in its planning functionality in recent times, followed by Oracle Essbase. Both tools show a high degree of flexibility in building up planning applications. Bissantz, BOARD and IBM Cognos TM1 are in third, fourth and fifth places respectively, also scoring excellent results. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 26 Tableau Yellowfin TARGIT Phocas Dimensional Insight Oracle Essbase Microsoft SSAS Bissantz Cyberscience MicroStrategy IBM Cognos TM1 Microsoft Excel Cubeware SAP BW IBM Cognos BI Infor Corporate Planning SAS SAP BO WebI 5.56 5.28 5.19 5.06 4.99 4.83 4.71 4.66 4.56 4.48 4.30 4.07 4.00 3.98 3.97 3.83 3.80 3.80 3.32 Figure 20: Business benefits for the Ad -hoc Anal ysis peer group (n=1356) The Ad-hoc Analysis peer group is led by Tableau, with its highly visual and interactive data analysis features. Users achieve a very high level of business benefits with this approach. Yellowfin, TARGIT, and Phocas take second, third and fourth places, also supporting ad-hoc analysis in an interactive and visually appealing way. 27 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Goal Achievement The first step in a successful project of any description is to establish a clear set of goals. In The BI Survey, goal achievement and business benefits mean different things. The Survey does not measure whether a project was well conceived or useful to the company. Instead, it measures the degree to which the stated goals were attained, regardless of what the goals were and whether the project itself brought any benefits. The Goal Achievement Index (GAI) is based on the question: “To what extent has the project achieved the business goals originally set?”, and responses are weighted as shown in the following chart. Level of goal achievement reported Not met any goals at all Weighting -6 Not met any goals yet 1 Hardly met goals 3 Partially met goals 5 Largely met goals 7 Fully achieved goals 9 Exceeded goals 10 Figure 21: Responses and w eightings for the GAI Goal achievement levels have remained relatively constant over the years. The figures reveal that 43 percent of respondents reported their projects had fully achieved or exceeded goals while 80 percent said they had at least largely met business goals. This figure remains the same as in The BI Survey 12, while last year saw an increase from 70 percent in 2011. At the other end of the spectrum only 4.6 percent reported they had not met any goals yet, or had met no goals at all. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 28 Exceeded goals 18.2% Fully achieved goals 24.5% Largely met goals 37.4% Partially met goals Hardly met goals 14.0% 1.3% Not met any goals yet Not met goals at all 4.4% 0.2% Figure 22: Goal achievement (n=2203) Figure 23 below breaks down goal achievement by product. It should be noted that ‘Hardly met goals’, ‘Not met any goals yet’ and ‘Not met goals at all’ from Figure 22 have been merged into one category called ‘Few if any goals met.’ The rows in this table sum to 100 percent. 29 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Products Arcplan Bissantz BOARD Corporate Planning Cubeware Cyberscience Dimensional Insight Evidanza IBM Cognos BI IBM Cognos TM1 Infor Information Builders Jedox Logi Analytics Microsoft Excel Microsoft SSAS Microsoft SSRS MicroStrategy Oracle Essbase Oracle BI Foundation Suite Pentaho Phocas Pyramid QlikTech SAP BW SAP BO WebI SAS Tableau TARGIT Yellowfin Few if any goals met Partially met goals Largely met goals Fully achieved goals Exceeded goals GAI 4% 1% 3% 3% 2% 2% 0% 11% 12% 4% 8% 6% 5% 10% 18% 6% 6% 4% 4% 9% 9% 0% 27% 6% 5% 4% 9% 4% 3% 10% 5% 8% 8% 18% 14% 11% 15% 19% 21% 2% 13% 8% 14% 7% 29% 15% 21% 16% 8% 14% 14% 11% 9% 11% 18% 37% 20% 9% 25% 7% 33% 37% 30% 32% 45% 48% 37% 30% 45% 32% 39% 27% 26% 46% 45% 42% 38% 41% 30% 48% 43% 42% 27% 38% 51% 39% 29% 36% 28% 30% 32% 26% 41% 26% 24% 23% 22% 30% 16% 40% 32% 29% 32% 15% 8% 20% 23% 26% 26% 25% 17% 26% 25% 18% 18% 16% 17% 15% 25% 40% 25% 27% 18% 21% 15% 16% 27% 11% 6% 22% 8% 29% 23% 22% 0% 16% 13% 14% 32% 5% 17% 22% 11% 27% 8% 3% 26% 36% 18% 13% 8.04 8.13 8.03 7.62 7.44 7.63 7.93 7.04 6.49 8.18 6.88 7.96 7.80 7.22 5.45 7.19 7.08 7.38 8.15 6.91 7.06 7.95 6.02 7.60 6.46 7.00 7.26 7.96 7.38 7.47 Figure 23 : Goal achievement anal yzed b y product (n= 2073) Figure 23 Key Findings: This year’s Survey again sees IBM Cognos TM1 and Oracle Essbase attaining the highest goal achievement levels, only switching places compared to last year. IBM TM1 has consistently achieved excellent ratings in The BI Surveys and winning this important category crowns this success. Both TM1 and Essbase are multidimensional databases and are among the longest-lived and most mature solutions in the field. Third ranked Bissantz is usually implemented as a front-end to a multidimensional database. The positive impact on its goal achievement could be attributed to a strong core of experienced users and consultants as well as a good level of understanding of the product gleaned from successful implementations. Last year’s Survey saw a remarkable improvement in Oracle Essbase’s goal achievement. From its low scores in BI Surveys prior to 2012, Essbase has risen to second place this year, just a fraction behind TM1. It should be noted The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 30 that many Essbase responses this year came not only from organizations that simply use the Excel Add-in, but also from a number of companies using the product in conjunction with specialist front-end tools such as Dodeca. This factor seems to have had a positive impact on Essbase’s ratings. Oracle and IBM results vary depending on the product. The multidimensional databases Essbase and TM1 have high goal achievement ratings whereas Oracle BI Foundation Suite and IBM Cognos BI do not fare very well. The tendency for these products to feature in larger projects with more users and higher data volumes, and a dependency on other software components (e.g. a relational database that is outside the control of a BI solution) may explain this. Fourth and fifth ranked Arcplan and BOARD offer BI application development platforms. The flexibility of this approach and the functionality of these solutions seem to ensure good goal achievement ratings. Tableau is the product that most regularly exceeded the goals originally set with a remarkable 36 percent of respondents stating that this happened. Tableau is one of the fastest growing products in the industry right now and this might be a contributing factor to its success. Microsoft Excel has the lowest goal achievement score. Users praise its flexibility but when it comes to implementing professional BI applications the shortcomings of this spreadsheet solution become obvious and goals often cannot be met. Pyramid Analytics projects show the highest rate of meeting only a few - if any – goals. This fairly new solution might appear to customers to offer more than it can currently deliver. Other products with low goal achievement were SAP BW, IBM Cognos BI and Infor, all mature products from large vendors. SAP BW and IBM Cognos BI also often suffer from bad query performance in large projects, a key reason why goals may not be met. 31 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Dashboard 7.65 Performance Management 7.64 Visual Analysis and Data Discovery 7.54 OLAP Analysis 7.37 Ad-hoc analysis 7.34 Enterprise Reporting 7.19 Large International Vendors 7.18 Figure 24: Goal achievement anal yzed b y peer group (n= 2133) Goal achievement ratings also depend on the type of software selected and, just as in last year’s Survey, Large Vendors and Enterprise Reporting tools had the lowest goal achievement levels of all peer groups whereas Dashboard, Performance Management and Visual Analysis & Data Discovery tools ranked highest. These products are often used in smaller projects where it is easier to define goals, implement the tool, and review whether, and to what extent, goals have been achieved. Enterprise Reporting tools, on the other hand, often have to fulfill a broad set of expectations and requirements that they might not always meet. Deployment This section focuses on BI deployment, analyzing product usage in small, medium and large organizations. We compare how widely products are used and analyze the frequency of BI usage in individual departments and business functions. Usage in different company sizes It is important to understand which products are best suited to which size of company. Most products are best suited to either small, medium or large project sizes. Figure 25 provides a general overview of the company size served by each product. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 32 Number of employees Product < 100 100 - 2500 > 2500 Arcplan 13% 33% 54% Bissantz 16% 62% 22% BOARD 11% 80% 9% Corporate Planning 32% 59% 9% Cubeware 9% 72% 19% Cyberscience 15% 65% 20% Dimensional Insight 18% 66% 16% Evidanza 10% 90% 0% IBM Cognos BI 5% 47% 48% IBM Cognos TM1 2% 45% 53% Infor 7% 58% 35% Information Builders 10% 46% 44% Jedox 18% 65% 17% Logi Analytics 37% 49% 15% Microsoft Excel 16% 66% 18% Microsoft SSAS 17% 52% 31% Microsoft SSRS 6% 65% 29% MicroStrategy 6% 38% 55% Oracle Essbase 2% 28% 70% Oracle BI Foundation Suite 0% 43% 57% Pentaho 39% 47% 14% Phocas 47% 46% 7% Pyramid 16% 62% 22% QlikTech 15% 49% 35% SAP BW 5% 34% 61% SAP BO WebI 0% 39% 61% SAS 14% 31% 56% Tableau 15% 52% 33% TARGIT 24% 69% 6% Yellowfin 60% 33% 7% Figure 25: Number of emplo yees in different compan y sizes b y product (n= 2132) 60 percent of Yellowfin and 47 percent of Phocas respondents are in the small company bracket while the majority of vendors serve mainly mid-sized companies with 100 to 2,500 employees. We also find among BI Survey respondents that large vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAS and SAP (but not Microsoft) sell mostly to large organizations. Interestingly, the majority of MicroStrategy and Arcplan customers also belong to this group. 33 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Small number of users Products Median Mean Corporate Planning 5 8 Jedox 15 40 Yellowfin 15 63 Phocas 16 34 Logi Analytics 20 76 Pentaho 20 204 Cyberscience 25 72 Tableau 25 119 Pyramid 25 122 Evidanza 30 42 TARGIT 30 54 Bissantz 30 136 Figure 26: Small number of users b y product ( median=<30, n=changing bases) A high deviation between median and mean indicates the presence of a minority of very large user bases, far larger than the usual number of users reported. For example, Pentaho, Bissantz, Pyramid Analytics and Tableau are typically rolled out to 30 or less users but have a mean user base of over 100 (Figure 26). Medium number of users Products Median Mean Cubeware 40 106 Microsoft SSAS 45 262 BOARD 50 128 Infor 50 216 Dimensional Insight 50 260 QlikTech 50 379 IBM Cognos TM1 70 264 Figure 27: Medium number of users b y product ( median= 30-100, n=changing bases) In the group of medium number of users (median 40-70) QlikTech also features in projects with significantly higher numbers of users, with a mean of 379. Typically supporting around 100-263 users Excel, SAP BO Web Intelligence, Information Builders, SAP BW and MicroStrategy have a mean of over 1,000 users, showing that some mass deployments are reported in this Survey (Figure 28). The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 34 Large number of users Products Median Mean Microsoft SSRS 100 383 Arcplan 100 445 Oracle BI Foundation Suite 100 781 SAS 117 350 MicroStrategy 150 1394 IBM Cognos BI 200 760 SAP BW 230 1582 Oracle Essbase 250 1306 SAP BO WebI 250 2131 Microsoft Excel 250 4115 Information Builders 263 1598 Figure 28: Large number of users b y product ( median= >100, n=changing bases) Percentage of BI users in companies The BI Survey has regularly found over the years that the number of users per product bears little relation to the size of the company using the product. This indicates that many products are used as departmental solutions rather than for global usage across the company. The product penetration figures below indicate the percentage of employees in customer sites using BI products. 35 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Microsoft Excel Yellowfin Information Builders Logi Analytics Dimensional Insight Phocas Pentaho TARGIT Microsoft SSRS Pyramid IBM Cognos BI BOARD Tableau Microsoft SSAS QlikTech Cyberscience MicroStrategy Evidanza SAP BO WebI Arcplan Bissantz SAP BW Jedox Corporate Planning Infor Cubeware Oracle BI Foundation Suite Oracle Essbase SAS IBM Cognos TM1 61% 37% 32% 27% 26% 19% 19% 18% 18% 17% 17% 16% 16% 15% 13% 13% 12% 12% 12% 11% 11% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 9% 8% 6% 5% Figure 29: Percentage of emplo yees using products at customer sites (n=2116) Excel unsurprisingly leads the field with the highest penetration rate of users at customer sites (61 percent), followed by Yellowfin (37 percent) whose high ranking reflects the fact that a large percentage of its users fall into the small enterprise category. Information Builders, Logi Analytics and Dimensional Insight are also used by a significantly higher percentage of employees than most other tools. The vast majority of BI products are used by between 10 and 19 percent of employees in enduser organizations. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 36 BI usage by department The Survey asked participants which business functions use BI applications in their company. Finance and Controlling Management 48% Sales IT Marketing Production Procurement Logistics Human resources R&D Legal Other 76% 74% 21% 17% 20% 22% 16% 12% 7% 5% 4% 7% 2013 41% 45% 45% 36% 53% 55% 85% 65% 33% 32% 31% 2008 Figure 30: Frequenc y of business departments using BI 201 3 vs 2008 (n=1881/2019) Figure 30 reveals the marked growth in BI between 2008 and 2013. The results show that BI tool usage has become more pervasive and is no longer used solely in finance departments or by senior management. That said, Finance and Controlling remains the core business function using BI at 85 percent. The highest increase can be seen in management: 74 percent of respondents stated this year that management uses BI tools, up from 59 percent last year and 48 percent in 2008. This could be explained by a new breed of more IT-savvy employees taking over management positions. The need for faster transparency within businesses could be another reason why management as a user group has seen such a fast increase in BI tool usage in the last five years. Sales and IT both achieve high penetration rates of 65 and 55 percent respectively. The results show a clear spread of BI across departments, with legal departments being the least likely to use BI applications. 37 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary SAP BO WebI TARGIT Information Builders Dimensional Insight SAP BW QlikTech Cubeware Cyberscience Bissantz Logi Analytics BOARD MicroStrategy Arcplan IBM Cognos BI Infor Pyramid Total Phocas Microsoft SSRS Oracle BI Foundation Suite Tableau Oracle Essbase Evidanza IBM Cognos TM1 Microsoft Excel Microsoft SSAS Jedox Pentaho Corporate Planning SAS 6.00 5.47 5.08 4.98 4.92 4.81 4.81 4.73 4.63 4.61 4.61 4.49 4.47 4.41 4.38 4.29 4.28 4.28 4.22 4.06 3.98 3.94 3.66 3.65 3.45 3.26 3.01 2.97 2.79 2.67 Figure 31: Average number of departments using a product (n=2133) The Survey asked how many departments use BI products in companies. Figure 31 shows how products such as SAP BO Web Intelligence, TARGIT, Information Builders, and Dimensional Insight are commonly used across many departments. Others, such as SAS, Corporate Planning, Pentaho and Jedox, are more likely to be used in just a few departments. On average, BI products serve 4.28 departments, up from 3.72 departments last year. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 38 The selection process Reasons to buy The Survey asked organizations why they purchased a particular product. Participants were provided with a list of options from which they could select up to three answers. The chart below is an overview of the responses. Functionality 47% Ease of use for report recipients 42% Fast query performance 36% Price-performance ratio 34% Ease of use for report designers 34% Flexibility of the software 29% Predefined data connection 26% Large data handling capacity 21% Proof of concept faster or better 19% Ability to support large numbers of users 18% Vendor/product reputation 15% Availability of local support 15% Vendor listed as corporate standard 10% Innovative capacity of the vendor 10% Bundled with another product 9% Support for mobile devices 8% Vendor relationship 7% Size/Financial stability of the vendor 7% International focus of the software Other External hosting or cloud offering 4% 2% 1% Figure 32: Frequenc y of reasons to bu y (n=2141, multi response) The chart in Figure 32 ranks the reasons why respondents purchased their BI tool in order of frequency. Functionality is top of the criteria list followed by Ease of use. The two least popular product selection criteria this year are ‘International focus’ and ‘Cloud’. However, our more detailed analysis of trending topics shows that Cloud BI is growing in importance (see The BI Survey 13 Trending Topics series). Performance Management Visual Analysis and Data Discovery OLAP Analysis Ad-hoc Query Dashboard Enterprise Reporting Large Internnational Vendors Total 39 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Functionality 49% 45% 49% 45% 50% 48% 44% 47% Ability to support large numbers of concurrent users 14% 13% 17% 19% 19% 25% 22% 19% Large data handling capacity 15% 27% 18% 22% 26% 22% 25% 22% Ease of use for report designers 31% 44% 29% 31% 42% 29% 28% 32% Ease of use for report recipients 48% 49% 40% 42% 46% 34% 36% 42% Fast query performance 36% 56% 35% 34% 39% 20% 35% 36% Predefined data connection 32% 24% 27% 24% 25% 29% 22% 26% Innovative capacity of the vendor 13% 8% 12% 10% 10% 11% 7% 10% Vendor/product reputation 12% 11% 15% 18% 14% 21% 19% 16% 4% 3% 8% 7% 4% 11% 10% 7% 38% 29% 27% 24% 33% 23% 23% 28% 3% 2% 5% 5% 4% 7% 5% 5% 41% 28% 38% 30% 30% 22% 25% 31% Vendor listed as corporate standard 5% 3% 13% 14% 5% 20% 18% 12% Availability of local support 18% 13% 16% 15% 11% 13% 11% 14% Proof of concept faster or better 20% 24% 19% 19% 27% 17% 18% 20% Vendor relationship 6% 7% 7% 7% 6% 7% 8% 7% Bundled with another product 5% 5% 10% 11% 3% 12% 13% 9% Support for mobile devices 6% 8% 4% 7% 13% 10% 7% 7% External hosting or cloud offering 1% 2% 1% 2% 3% 2% 1% 1% Other 2% 4% 3% 2% 2% 2% 1% 2% Size/Financial stability of the vendor Flexibility of the software International focus of the software Price-performance ratio Figure 33: Frequenc y of reasons to bu y anal yzed b y peer group (n=2015) Figure 33 shows the frequency of reasons to buy by peer group. There are a number of key findings here: Functionality and ease of use for reporting recipients and report designers are the most important reasons to buy BI products across all product peer groups. Only enterprise reporting and large international vendors show a lower frequency in these categories compared to the other peer groups. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 40 Enterprise Reporting tools and large international vendors are more likely to be selected than other tools/vendors because companies have them as a corporate standard, they come bundled with another product or for their ability to support large numbers of users. Dashboard, visual BI/data discovery and performance management vendors are seldom selected because they are company standards. Bundling is also not an important factor here. Surprisingly, large international vendors are not selected because they offer local support although they have the biggest, most widespread support organizations. Price-performance ratio is not an important issue for buyers of enterprise reporting products and large international vendors, but is far more so for buyers of performance management and OLAP products. The ability to handle large volumes of data is not really an issue in enterprise reporting and large enterprise projects, whereas performance management, visual BI/data discovery and dashboard products do consider data volume to be an issue. Support for mobile devices is popular with customer of dashboard and enterprise reporting products. However, in all other peer groups it was chosen as a top three criterion in fewer than 10 percent of cases. This result was identical last year. Very few respondents regard ‘External hosting or cloud offering’ to be particularly important despite market hype, the emergence of start-up companies in this area and growing functionality in existing tools. Performance management products are selected in a completely different way to all other peer groups. Predefined data connections, the flexibility of the software, price-performance ratio and availability of local support are all important considerations in this group and mentioned more often than for all other peer groups. The ability to support large numbers of users, large data handling capacity, the vendor being listed as a corporate standard, vendor size and support for mobile devices are much less important compared with the other peer groups. Products Large data handling capacity Ease of use for report designers Ease of use for report recipients Fast query performance Flexibility of the software Price-performance ratio Vendor listed as corporate standard 41 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Arcplan 13% 33% 38% 31% 56% 36% 4% Bissantz 24% 24% 63% 52% 28% 21% 3% BOARD 15% 54% 61% 31% 42% 38% 4% Corporate Planning 6% 9% 67% 15% 55% 64% 0% Cubeware 7% 27% 58% 21% 20% 56% 4% Cyberscience 24% 58% 36% 44% 25% 35% 2% Dimensional Insight 31% 47% 41% 52% 29% 34% 3% 3% 24% 48% 17% 34% 38% 0% IBM Cognos BI 20% 24% 41% 16% 14% 13% 29% IBM Cognos TM1 34% 32% 38% 72% 42% 18% 10% Evidanza 7% 25% 30% 25% 37% 46% 9% Information Builders 38% 42% 29% 21% 44% 23% 6% Jedox 12% 37% 45% 44% 42% 62% 2% 8% 56% 36% 13% 49% 69% 3% Microsoft Excel 8% 36% 54% 8% 33% 33% 18% Microsoft SSAS 18% 23% 33% 43% 15% 56% 22% Microsoft SSRS 8% 42% 31% 19% 21% 50% 25% MicroStrategy 39% 32% 42% 30% 17% 17% 10% Oracle Essbase 43% 22% 30% 61% 30% 13% 11% 26% 23% 19% 21% 9% 16% 35% Pentaho 14% 31% 14% 14% 46% 80% 0% Phocas 23% 34% 65% 78% 28% 28% 0% Pyramid 13% 49% 49% 47% 27% 44% 4% QlikTech 33% 41% 53% 72% 34% 22% 1% SAP BW 19% 4% 7% 7% 7% 3% 41% SAP BO WebI 14% 32% 40% 6% 12% 5% 37% SAS 34% 20% 26% 31% 29% 11% 20% Tableau 30% 72% 60% 38% 21% 28% 0% TARGIT 17% 41% 40% 33% 31% 34% 5% Yellowfin 17% 63% 70% 20% 27% 57% 0% Infor Logi Analytics Oracle BI Found. Suite Figure 34: Frequenc y of reasons to bu y anal yzed b y product (selection) Figure 34 shows a small subset of the product selection criteria by product. To carry out your own detailed analysis of these results and analyze all the selection criteria by product, please refer to our online BI Survey Analyzer tool. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 42 ‘Large data handling capacity’ is a frequently cited selection criterion for the multidimensional databases Oracle Essbase and IBM Cognos TM1. Both are known for handling the larger applications that are implemented with multidimensional databases. The relational reporting engines from MicroStrategy and Information Builders, which are often found in large scale projects, also score highly in this area. It is interesting to see that QlikTech, SAS, Dimensional Insight and Tableau are also often chosen for their capacity to handle large data sets. This is rarely a consideration when choosing to purchase Evidanza, Corporate Planning, Cubeware and Infor. The products most regularly selected because of their ease of use for both report designers and report recipients are Tableau, Yellowfin, Pyramid Analytics, BOARD, QlikTech, Dimensional Insight and TARGIT. More appealing in ease of use to report designers than report recipients are Cyberscience, Logi Analytics and Information Builders. Conversely Corporate Planning, Phocas, Bissantz and Cubeware are rated as more appealing in ease of use to report recipients than report designers. SAS and Oracle BI Foundation Suite are seldom chosen for ease of use, and SAP BW is almost never chosen for this reason. Fast query performance was an important consideration for buyers of Phocas, IBM Cognos TM1, QlikTech and Oracle Essbase. SAP BO WebI, SAP BW and Microsoft Excel were the three tools found to be least likely to convince potential buyers with strong query performance. Arcplan and Corporate Planning lead the field in flexibility, followed by Logi Analytics, Pentaho and Information Builders. Vendors that also have an open source offering – Pentaho and Jedox – rank highly in price-performance as a selection criterion. But Logi Analytics, Corporate Planning, Yellowfin, Cubeware and Microsoft SSAS are also able to convince buyers with this argument. Not many products are selected to become company standards. SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects WebI are often chosen for this reason, as well as Oracle BI Foundation Suite (but not Oracle Essbase) and IBM Cognos BI (but not TM1). 43 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Implementing BI and Satisfaction In this chapter, we examine various aspects of business intelligence software implementations, such as the time taken to implement a BI project and the level of satisfaction with vendor and implementer support. Implementation time Countless IT projects experience delays and data warehousing and BI projects are by no means immune to this perennial issue. Participants were asked how long implementation of the BI aspect of their project took from software purchase to initial rollout. Figure 35 shows the distribution of implementation times. The most frequent value (modal value) is ‘three to six months’ (27 percent), followed by ‘one to three months’ (25 percent). Ten percent of respondents reported initial implementation times of over a year and two percent took over two years. The Survey found that 64 percent of projects are rolled out within six months, compared to 71 percent last year. Less than 1 month 12% 1 to 3 months 25% 3 to 6 months 27% 6 to 12 months 22% 1 to 2 years 10% 2 to less than 3 years 2% 3 years or more 2% Figure 35: Implementation time distribution (n=2018) Implementation time depends largely on the product being implemented (Figure 36). Naturally, the complexity of the product and/or the project will impact on project length and certain products lend themselves better to more complex projects, thus increasing their average implementation time. Clearly other factors such as the The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 44 number of data sources, the volume of data and the number of users or departments served also have an influence here. Products Phocas Logi Analytics Pyramid Yellowfin Tableau TARGIT QlikTech Jedox BOARD Dimensional Insight Pentaho Bissantz Corporate Planning Microsoft Excel Arcplan Cyberscience Total Microsoft SSAS Information Builders Cubeware Evidanza Oracle Essbase Infor SAP BO WebI IBM Cognos TM1 MicroStrategy IBM Cognos BI SAS Microsoft SSRS Oracle BI Found. Suite SAP BW Mean Median 2.7 3.5 3.5 3.6 4.1 4.5 4.6 4.9 5.7 5.9 6.0 6.3 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.6 7.2 7.7 7.7 7.9 8.1 8.8 8.9 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.4 9.8 10.0 12.7 14.2 1.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 1.9 3.3 3.2 3.4 4.5 3.8 5.3 4.2 3.6 2.3 4.5 3.0 4.6 4.9 6.4 5.0 4.4 6.5 6.1 7.5 5.0 7.4 7.4 7.6 8.3 9.0 10.7 Figure 36: Implementation time in months anal yzed b y product (n=1898) Figure 36 Key Findings: Phocas, a query and analysis tool intended for self-service applications administered by business users has the quickest implementation time (average 2.7 months, median 1.9 months). Logi Analytics a flexible BI development tool that can easily be embedded in other applications ranks second with an average implementation time of 3.5 months and a median of 2.9 months. 45 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Pyramid Analytics, a relatively new BI solution which has a modern architecture and currently only works with Microsoft SQL Server databases ranks equal second for average implementation time but has a median of 2.8 months. Its user interface is very Microsoft-like: this approach might also help to reduce implementation time. Visual Analysis and Data Discovery 3.0 Dashboard 4.3 Performance Management 4.4 Ad-hoc analysis 5.0 OLAP Analysis 5.0 Large International Vendors 6.2 Enterprise Reporting 7.0 Figure 37: Average implementation time in months anal yzed b y product peer group (median) (n=1672) Figure 37 analyzes implementation time by product peer groups. Visual Analysis & Data Discovery tools clearly rank at the top (i.e. their projects are shorter). These peer groups contain products that offer more self-service capabilities, a factor that can lead to shorter implementation times. Large International Vendors and Enterprise Reporting Vendors are better suited to more ambitious projects that take longer to implement. Less than 1 month 61% 1 to 3 months 47% 3 to 6 months 34% 6 to 12 months 26% 1 to 2 years 17% 2 to less than 3 years 17% 3 years or more 7% Figure 38: Percentage of sites reporting no significant problems, b y implementation time (n=1983) The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 46 A longer implementation time increases the number of issues a project is likely to encounter (Figure 38). Evidence from The Survey indicates that projects achieving a successful rollout within six months report significantly fewer problems. Extended implementation periods increase risk and reduce the chances of achieving benefits. Some factors seem to have a bigger influence on rollout times than others. For instance, Survey data shows that smaller companies roll out their applications faster than medium or large companies. Smaller, simpler projects appear to reduce the likelihood of issues affecting the project such as company politics and changing requirements. There will always be instances where unexpected problems arise but a solid, well thought out project plan and an experienced project management team should be able to negate the effects of the unexpected. Where projects are so large they become unwieldy, they should be broken down into smaller projects and managed as part of a program. Support Good support is crucial for project success. The following chart shows that business benefits depend very much on the quality of support. This result is in line previous editions of The BI Survey. Excellent Very poor 5.53 2.55 Figure 39 : BBI anal yzed b y vendor support qualit y (n=2092) Ad-hoc analysis Enterprise Reporting Dashboard OLAP Analysis Performance Management Visual Analysis and Data Discovery Large International Vendors 47 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Excellent 31% 24% 40% 29% 33% 44% 20% Good 39% 41% 38% 42% 42% 38% 41% Satisfactory 19% 22% 15% 19% 16% 13% 25% Not very good 4% 6% 3% 3% 4% 2% 6% Very poor 3% 3% 2% 2% 2% 1% 3% None used so far 4% 3% 2% 5% 4% 3% 6% Vendor Support Figure 40: Vendor support satisfaction anal yzed b y product peer group (n=1967) Vendor support ratings vary by peer group (Figure 40). In general, customers of large international vendors reported much lower support quality than those using small and medium-sized vendors or niche BI vendors. The same is true for Ad-hoc analysis Enterprise Reporting Dashboard OLAP Analysis Performance Management Visual Analysis and Data Discovery Large International Vendors implementer support satisfaction (Figure 41). Excellent 34% 28% 37% 34% 38% 37% 28% Good 35% 36% 32% 36% 38% 32% 36% Satisfactory 12% 14% 10% 12% 11% 10% 14% Not very good 4% 5% 3% 3% 2% 2% 4% Implementer support Very poor 2% 2% 1% 2% 1% 1% 2% None used so far 13% 15% 17% 13% 10% 18% 15% Figure 41: Implementer support satisfaction anal yzed b y product peer group (n=1841) The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 48 Dimensional Insight, Pyramid Analytics and Bissantz received the best overall vendor support ratings from their customers. The top three vendors in each peer group were: Peer Group Top three products by Vendor Support Large international Information Builders, SAS, MicroStrategy vendors Enterprise Reporting Yellowfin, Arcplan, Information Builders Dashboard Dimensional Insight, Logi Analytics, Tableau Ad-hoc Analysis Dimensional Insight, Bissantz, Cyberscience OLAP Analysis Pyramid Analytics, Bissantz, BOARD Visual Analysis & Data Dimensional Insight, Pyramid Analytics, Cyberscience Discovery Performance Arcplan, Bissantz, Oracle Essbase Management Figure 42: Top three vendors in each peer group for vendor support (n=1967) 49 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Problems in BI projects Query performance has been the most commonly cited product-related problem in all but one of the previous editions of The BI Survey, the exception being two years ago when it was eclipsed by ‘poor data quality’. Furthermore, sites that used good query performance as a key selection criterion were more successful in business terms than those that did not. Despite the advances in technology with better caches, in-memory databases and much more powerful hardware, users still think that slow query performance is the biggest problem in BI implementations. While we see average absolute query response times fall each year, we suspect that the average user’s perception of what is an ‘acceptable’ response time and when it becomes a problem are rising at least at the same rate. No significant problems 36% Slow query performance 15% Poor data quality 15% Lack of interest from business users 14% Requirements changed 13% Could not agree on requirements 12% Company politics 12% Administrative problems 12% Poor data governance 10% Software not flexible enough 8% Unreliable software 8% Unable to get data from some systems 7% Software too hard to use 6% Missing key features 6% Can not handle data volume Product security limitations Can not handle number of users Other 5% 3% 2% 1% Figure 43: Frequenc y of problems reported in BI projects (n=2225) Administrative problems Company politics Could not agree on requirements Lack of interest from business users Missing key features Poor data governance Poor data quality Product can not handle number of users Product can not handle data volume Slow query performance Requirements changed Product security limitations Software too hard to use Software not flexible enough Unable to get data from some systems Unreliable software No significant problems The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Arcplan 7% 11% 22% 5% 1% 3% 15% 0% 2% 16% 15% 5% 5% 5% 5% 3% 41% Bissantz 11% 7% 18% 21% 0% 8% 23% 0% 0% 15% 13% 0% 5% 5% 4% 1% 43% BOARD 9% 9% 10% 14% 10% 1% 13% 7% 6% 13% 17% 6% 1% 9% 7% 12% 39% Corporate Planning 6% 6% 6% 12% 0% 6% 0% 3% 15% 21% 6% 0% 0% 0% 6% 3% 52% Cubeware 8% 13% 26% 20% 1% 8% 12% 0% 8% 30% 16% 1% 5% 5% 6% 7% 28% Cyberscience 10% 10% 2% 15% 8% 5% 8% 2% 3% 3% 5% 5% 12% 8% 12% 2% 46% Dimensional Insight 12% 17% 7% 22% 2% 13% 7% 2% 0% 7% 7% 3% 7% 8% 5% 3% 47% Evidanza 7% 3% 31% 7% 3% 0% 14% 3% 3% 31% 14% 0% 7% 10% 7% 17% 34% IBM Cognos BI 21% 14% 13% 21% 5% 18% 20% 2% 8% 29% 9% 0% 12% 16% 6% 5% 16% IBM Cognos TM1 12% 18% 6% 12% 2% 20% 14% 4% 8% 18% 14% 4% 6% 2% 6% 14% 26% Infor 7% 2% 11% 13% 6% 8% 12% 5% 6% 18% 11% 0% 2% 5% 2% 17% 41% Information Builders 14% 18% 8% 8% 4% 6% 18% 0% 0% 8% 8% 6% 8% 4% 4% 8% 49% Jedox 10% 6% 12% 14% 4% 4% 6% 2% 6% 10% 10% 1% 3% 3% 3% 14% 52% Logi Analytics 7% 5% 5% 10% 5% 5% 10% 2% 7% 10% 2% 7% 5% 5% 5% 5% 56% Microsoft Excel 7% 7% 7% 12% 21% 29% 10% 7% 31% 14% 5% 12% 7% 12% 12% 7% 17% Microsoft SSAS 15% 19% 16% 13% 1% 15% 19% 4% 2% 15% 20% 8% 3% 3% 8% 3% 30% Microsoft SSRS 14% 16% 8% 18% 8% 16% 26% 0% 4% 10% 10% 4% 8% 18% 10% 2% 30% MicroStrategy 18% 18% 8% 24% 6% 9% 20% 2% 3% 14% 15% 2% 9% 9% 7% 11% 23% Oracle Essbase Oracle BI Found. Suite Pentaho 11% 20% 15% 9% 7% 19% 7% 2% 2% 7% 13% 0% 2% 9% 7% 11% 31% 18% 18% 18% 18% 11% 5% 25% 0% 5% 18% 30% 5% 9% 20% 11% 11% 16% 12% 18% 15% 26% 9% 18% 21% 0% 3% 21% 6% 12% 3% 0% 0% 18% 29% Phocas 9% 6% 1% 4% 3% 1% 4% 0% 0% 1% 4% 1% 0% 4% 7% 0% 76% Pyramid 2% 7% 0% 5% 5% 5% 7% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 2% 5% 2% 7% 67% QlikTech 17% 10% 17% 10% 5% 17% 28% 4% 5% 7% 17% 7% 4% 2% 6% 6% 31% SAP BW 11% 13% 25% 21% 9% 12% 14% 1% 6% 38% 20% 1% 19% 21% 7% 6% 8% SAP BO WebI 10% 10% 3% 19% 16% 20% 13% 3% 6% 23% 11% 1% 11% 21% 11% 23% 24% SAS 3% 25% 8% 8% 3% 8% 19% 8% 0% 14% 19% 3% 22% 14% 6% 8% 28% Tableau 17% 19% 2% 9% 9% 13% 17% 0% 4% 9% 9% 6% 0% 6% 15% 2% 49% TARGIT 14% 5% 10% 14% 10% 7% 14% 2% 3% 24% 14% 2% 7% 3% 8% 2% 36% Yellowfin 10% 20% 10% 3% 7% 0% 13% 0% 0% 3% 3% 3% 0% 13% 7% 3% 47% Products Figure 44: Frequenc y of problems anal yzed b y product (n=2082) 50 51 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Analyzing reported problems by product reveals an interesting - and in some cases worrying - picture (Figure 44). While users of Phocas, Pyramid Analytics and Logi Analytics report just a few problems, a shocking 92 percent of SAP BW and 84 percent of Oracle BI Foundation Suite and IBM Cognos BI users have problems with either their software or their project. Figure 44 shows the problems most likely to be encountered with each product, while Figure 45 shows the list of problems crosstabbed with the seven peer groups Ad-hoc analysis Enterprise Reporting Dashboard OLAP Analysis Performance Management Visual Analysis and Data Discovery Large International Vendors used in The BI Survey 13. Administrative problems 12% 14% 13% 11% 9% 12% 14% Company politics 13% 14% 13% 11% 9% 11% 14% Could not agree on requirements 12% 14% 13% 15% 15% 8% 13% Lack of interest from business users 16% 16% 13% 16% 13% 11% 15% 6% 7% 5% 5% 4% 6% 7% Poor data governance 12% 10% 9% 11% 8% 10% 14% Poor data quality Products Missing key features 14% 18% 18% 14% 12% 16% 18% Product can not handle number of users 2% 1% 2% 2% 3% 2% 3% Product can not handle data volume 5% 4% 3% 5% 6% 3% 5% Slow query performance 18% 21% 11% 19% 17% 8% 17% Requirements changed 13% 14% 14% 14% 13% 11% 15% Product security limitations 3% 3% 5% 3% 2% 4% 4% Software too hard to use 7% 10% 5% 6% 4% 6% 8% Software not flexible enough 9% 14% 7% 7% 6% 5% 10% Unable to get data from some systems 7% 7% 7% 6% 5% 8% 7% Unreliable software 7% 9% 7% 8% 10% 4% 9% 33% 26% 36% 33% 39% 45% 26% No significant problems Figure 45: Frequenc y of problems anal yzed b y peer group (n=2093) The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 52 Trending topics in BI The BI Survey collates a vast amount of data and its impressive sample size enables us to carry out comprehensive analysis of trending topics; outshining competing studies which tend to concentrate on single topics. It should be noted that this document provides an overview of a selection of trending topics from this year’s Survey. In-depth analysis of The Survey findings can be found in our detailed ‘BI Survey 13 Trending Topics’ series. Business intelligence is a large and growing market, and has shown increasing signs of splitting into smaller vertical and horizontal markets in recent years. In The BI Survey, we focus our attention on products that cover a wide spectrum of industries and functionality. Focused analysis of Survey data is backed up by our independent expert knowledge of the software market (gained through consulting work with customers on their strategic issues in BI), and from the detailed product and market analysis that we publish in ‘The BI Verdict’. Business intelligence software exists in an environment of rapid technological change. Software technology itself is changing too and improvements in hardware are the main driver of technical change - such as the emergence of mobile devices with high resolution screens - and the continuing development towards storing more data in RAM. The BI Survey studies more than just user attitudes to software; it analyzes market trends and the latest buzzwords to gauge their impact on end-users. The Survey is not only interested in user perception of recent trends, but also the plans organizations have in place regarding new technologies and the importance of specific functionality in their product selection processes. 53 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Our approach to analyzing trends In The BI Survey 13 we have incorporated a two step approach to trend analysis; First we asked users which of the trending technologies they had already adopted, or had plans to adopt, in their use of business intelligence. Then we asked whether these trends were a consideration when selecting BI software. This question explores the link between functionality and the selection process, revealing whether the functionality vendors provide is perceived as an important differentiator influencing buyer behavior. The frequent inaccuracy of plans The question of ‘planned use’ finds both users and vendors habitually overestimating the rate, by 50 percent or more, at which new product ideas impact user experience. The Survey’s unique long-term approach asks participants each year whether they use – or plan to use – a given technology. By comparing responses with those from previous years The Survey examines whether expectations for new technologies were actually met. A good example of this is our study of extranets, a buzzword of some importance in the early days of The Survey. However, it has since faded into obscurity as the concept has established itself as a technical issue that is dealt with on a much lower level than is interesting to vendors marketing toolsets aimed at business users. Providing business intelligence functionality to external users never gained the popularity that had been expected. This may have been caused by the sensitivity of the data that BI products tend to handle and the perceived lack of need to involve outsiders in strategic decision-making processes, especially at a level detailed enough to require the provision of access to an analysis tool. For years, we also asked users whether they accessed their BI software using the web (that is, with a browser) and if so, which browser they used. Results indicated that most BI users (54 percent) access their BI tool with a browser and that users constantly overestimated their future usage of the web. We found that small companies avoid web-based BI, and recent Surveys showed little change in usage from year to year. The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary 54 In recent years, the renaissance of full client installations with self-service tools, such as QlikTech, suggests a demand for software installed on a client and affirms the continuity of our findings on web-based BI deployment. The inaccuracy of plans has been exemplified again in recent BI Surveys (including this year’s) when looking at planned usage of ‘mobile BI’ (see below). In fact, we have never seen such an overestimation before. Trends were not chosen on the assumption that they were likely to be used, but on the basis of how often they are discussed – by vendors and market analysts alike – and how frequently they are searched for on the internet. One of our key goals was to distinguish between trends that really bring about changes in the way BI software is used and the so-called trends that are just plain hype. Status and plans for trending BI topics The BI Survey 13 asked questions about eight major hot topics with high visibility in the BI market. Collaboration and Mobile BI are featured for the third year in a row, and Cloud BI/BiaaS for the second year. Self Service BI, information design, analyzing sensor/log data, analyzing text/unstructered data and analyzing social media data were added to this year’s Survey. Figure 46 provides an overview of the results for actual and predicted usage over 12 months and the long term. Past editions of The BI Survey have shown that the actual level of implementation ‘in 12 months time’ is always lower than the projected level shown in the chart below. However, the chart still provides an interesting picture of current usage and plans. 55 The BI Survey 13 – Complimentary Participant Summary Self Service 51% Collaboration 26% Information Design 25% Analyzing sensor/log data Mobile BI Analyzing text/unstructured data Cloud BI/BIaaS 22% 16% In use 11% 10% 13% 54% 5% 7% 67% 26% 7% 5% 11% 14% Planned within 12 months 23% 50% 10% 11% 12% 6% 12% Analyzing social 4%5% media data 15% 23% 35% 69% 77% 76% Planned in the long-term Not required Figure 46 : Significance of trending topics in BI (n=2265) Copyright © BARC GmbH 2013. All rights reserved. Business Application Research Center - BARC GmbH Berliner Platz 7 97080 Würzburg Germany +49 (0)931 880651-0