Gartner’s business intelligence predictions

Traditional business intelligence (BI) and analytics models are being disrupted as the balance of power shifts from IT to the business, according to Gartner.

The rise of data discovery, access to multi-structured data, data preparation tools and smart capabilities will further democratise access to analytics and stress the need for governance.

Here are the analyst’s firm’s BI predictions.

1. By 2017, most business users and analysts in organisations will have access to self-service tools to prepare data for analysis.

"Data preparation is one of most difficult and time-consuming challenges facing business users of BI and data discovery tools, as well as advanced analytics platforms," said Rita Sallam, research vice president at Gartner. "However, data preparation capabilities are emerging that will provide business users and analysts the ability to extend the scope of self-service to include information management, and extract, transform and load functions, enabling them to access, profile, prepare, integrate, curate, model and enrich data for analysis and consumption by BI and analytics platforms."

2. By 2017, most data discovery tools will have incorporated smart data discovery capabilities to expand the reach of interactive analysis.