6. BI Adoption “Field staff and front-line workers rated ease of use as most important, even above data quality. Middle managers rated ease of use and data quality as equally important.” “Sites that reported that software was too hard to use again had the smallest deployments." Source: “Ease of Use and Interface Appeal in Business Intelligence Tools”, BeyeNETWORK, March 2010 Source: “Report Debunks BI UsageMyth”, TDWI.com, May 2009
7. OLAP Survey 9 – How products should be chosen Source: “BI Survey 9”, BARC, 2010
8. TDWI - Ease of Use impact How important are these factors for BI to support more users, more decisions, and better impact business performance? Source: “Ease of Use and Interface Appeal in Business Intelligence Tools”, BeyeNETWORK, March 2010
9. Agenda Business Intelligence & Ease Of Use BI Products & Ease of Use DataWarehouse Explorer (DWE) Demo Architecture CNS Company
10. Report Writers Usually already available Hard to create report Not meant for end users Reports are static Copy to Excel Many reports created
11. Spreadsheets Available and used…a lot Difficult to navigateBI data Spreadmart threat Not auditable Not maintainable Error prone
12. BI Tools Should be easy to use Most are; for the end user Expensive Proprietary Specialized IT skills Data locked up
13. Agenda Business Intelligence & Ease Of Use BI Products & Ease of Use DataWarehouse Explorer Demo Architecture CNS Company