Business Intelligence at the Crossroads: The Need for Lean, Agile and Effective End-User Solutions

22 November 2011 by Pentaho

The history of the capabilities defined under the rubrics of business intelligence, business analytics, and data warehousing is marked by extraordinary promise, and, unfortunately, extraordinary failure to live up to that promise. In particular, the promise of extending
business intelligence to the widest possible user base - BI for the masses, as some call it - was more honored in the breach than otherwise.

Despite billions of dollars in customer spending, and myriad technologies, products, and methodologies, there is little doubt that the ability to provide functional, timely, and actionable business intelligence to the broadest possible number of users has yet to be achieved for most companies.

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