Top 14 Business Intelligence predictions for 2012 (Lachlan James)

1. The spending spree will continue
2. Location Intelligence: Complex layering
3. Mobile BI

  • Improved customer sales, service, and support (65%)
  • More efficiency and coordination in operations and business ۱processes (60%)
  • Faster deployment of BI and analytics applications and services (50%)
  • Customer self-service benefits (45%)

The top four information access benefits sought from Mobile BI are:

  • Faster and easier executive access to information (83%)
  • Easier, self-service access to data sources (67%)
  • Right-time data for users’ roles in processes or operations (54%)
  • More frequently updated information for all users (51%)

4. SaaS: BI in the Cloud spurs SMB adoption
5. Big Data
6. Ease-of-use will continue to be the number one BI priority
7. The consumerization of BI drives greater adoption and BI ROI
8. More pervasive BI leads to changes in BI governance and usership
9. “Enterprises are going to have to ‘live with’ multiple BI tools”
10. The rise of independent information gatherers
11. An analytics talent shortage
12. In-memory capabilities will grow in importance
13. Collaborative BI will experience notable marketplace penetration
14. More software solution providers will take advantage of embedded BI

Source: http://smartdatacollective.com/yellowfin/47360/top-14-business-intelligence-predictions-2012