-- Improvement in user information access and support
-- Decreased cost of implementations and on-going maintenance and support
-- Improvement of time-to-completion of BI implementation projects
-- Extended reach of BI applications to all users when, how, and where
they need it
According to research presented in a new report, "Business Intelligence
Deployment Strategies," 80% of Best-in-Class companies have experienced an
increase in enterprise-wide use of current BI deployments, versus 50% of
Industry Average and 31% of Laggard companies. Historically, companies that
have adopted BI solutions have struggled with expanding the use of the
technology to non-technical end users. Best-in-Class companies have clearly
uncovered the strategic and tactical capabilities to alleviate the pressure
to improve user adoption and thereby achieve more rapid and higher ROI on
BI investments.
"Traditional BI deployments have been characterized as consisting of long,
complex implementations involving difficult data integration issues, costly
software licenses, and user training requirements," said David Hatch,
Research Director of Aberdeen's Business Intelligence Practice. "All three
of these issues are reported as top inhibitors by respondents, and often
push deployment projects beyond the time and skill-set boundaries of the
organization. This has presented a problem for CIOs who must meet demand
for the delivery of actionable information, but are constrained by budget,
time, and skill set limitations."
Best-in-Class companies are utilizing a broad mix of deployment approaches
to deliver BI capabilities to the enterprise. This includes traditional
deployment approaches, such as on-premise client-server and web-server
deployments, as well as investigating new deployment approaches such as
SaaS BI, BI embedded within ERP and other enterprise applications, and "BI
appliances" that combine hardware and software into a packaged solution.
SaaS BI is the only deployment approach that is showing growth in interest
over time. In July of 2007, Aberdeen research revealed that 11% of
Best-in-Class BI applications were currently deployed via SaaS. The
findings in the new study reveal that this number has grown to 15% in less
than a year, and will continue to grow as 21% of Best-in-Class respondents
have indicated that they are planning to take this approach for future
deployments.
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