This January, we surveyed 60 CIOs, VPs and Directors of IT, BI, and Analytics about their BI agility. We were interested in learning how long it took them to get reports, what their backlogs looked like, and how many resources it took to build and revise enterprise reports. Here’s what we learned.

1. 2015
BI AGILITY
SURVEY

2. Table of Contents
Who Responded
Company Sizes
Industries
Time to Build
Team Structures
Workloads
Backlogs
Report Nightmares
Key Take-Aways1
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Demographics Reporting Trends Lessons Learned

3. People Who Took the Survey1
60Respondents Titles
Director
CIO
VP
Departments
BI
IT
Analytics

4. Company Size Breakdown2
Large $5B+
Medium $300M to $5B+
Small <$300M

5. Responses By Industry3

6. How Long Do Reports Take?4
40%Said Simple Reports Still
Take Multiple Days to Build

7. How Long Do Reports Take (cont.)4
*Simple report is “Sales this Month” or “Leads by Region”!
*Complex report is “Growth of Revenue by Sales Rep” or a bar chart with drilldown.!
!

8. Who Builds Reports?5
87%Said Complex Reports take
more than one person to build

9. Who Builds Reports? (cont.)5
*A simple report is “Sales this Month” or “Leads by Region”!
*A complex report is “Growth of Revenue by Sales Rep” or a bar chart with drilldown.!
!

10. What’s Your Typical Workload?6
8%Said they get 20+
report requests per week

11. Typical Report Workload? (cont.)6

12. What is Your Backlog?7
57%Said the wait is over a week
for a simple report
90%Said the wait is over a week
for a complex report

13. What is Your Backlog? (cont.)7
*Simple report is “Sales this Month” or “Leads by Region”!
*Complex report is “Growth of Revenue by Sales Rep” or a bar chart with drilldown.!
!

14. Your Worst Reporting Nightmare?8
1Most common complaint:
managing the complexity of
Enterprise-Wide BI
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15. Your Worst Reporting Nightmare (cont.)8
Enterprise-Wide Complexity
Last-Minute Firedrills
Limited Resources
Slow Queries
Knowledge Gaps

16. Reporting Nightmare Wordle (cont.)8

17. Key Take-Aways9
40% of companies still take multiple days to build simple reports
81% of companies take multiple days to build complex reports
87% of companies require multiple people to build complex reports
8% of companies get more than 20 report requests per week
57% of companies make users wait over a week for simple reports
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