Self-Service Business Intelligence: Empowering Users to Generate Insights
In today's economic environment, organizations must use business intelligence (BI) to make smarter, faster decisions. Yet, in too many organizations, decisions are still not based on business intelligence because of the inability to keep up with demand for information and analytics. One way to satisfy this demand is to set up a self-service BI (SS BI) environment.
Self-service BI offers an environment in which information workers can create and access specific sets of BI reports, queries, and analytics themselves—without IT intervention. This approach extends the reach and scope of BI applications to address a wider range of business needs and problems. At the same time, this extension must support the information workers’ need for a personalized and collaborative decision-making environment. Information workers must become more self-sufficient by having a BI environment that is more usable and more consumable. It is these two themes—usability and consumability—that play crucial roles in a fully functioning self-service business intelligence (SS BI) environment.
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Author(s):
Claudia Imhoff
President of Intelligent Solutions, Inc. and Founder of Boulder BI Brain Trust
Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., is a thought leader, visionary, and practitioner in the rapidly growing field of business intelligence. She is an internationally recognized expert on analytics, business intelligence, and the infrastructure to support these initiatives. Dr. Imhoff has co-authored five highly regarded and popular books on these subjects and written more than 100 articles for technical and business magazines.
Colin White
Founder of BI Research and President of DataBase Associates Inc.
Colin White is the Founder of BI Research and President of DataBase Associates Inc. Colin is well known for his in-depth knowledge of data management, information integration, and business intelligence technologies. With many years of IT and consulting experience, he is a frequent speaker at industry events. The author of numerous articles and papers on deploying evolving information technologies for business benefit, Colin is also a regular contributor to several industry journals.