Briefs

By Jeff Kelly, 27 Jan 2009 | SearchDataManagement.com

Despite a continued push from vendors, self-service business intelligence (BI) isn't making headway at most organizations, according to a recent survey by Forrester Research.

Of the 82 IT "decision makers" surveyed by the Cambridge, Mass.-based research firm, only 18% said "reports and dashboards can be created by any end user with limited BI skills," the very definition of self-service BI.

That's surely a much smaller percentage than vendors like Microsoft and SAP Business Objects -- both of which have made extending BI capabilities to non-power users a priority -- would like to see.

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