1. Characteristics of Next-
Generation BI Tools
BI Leadership Forum Survey –
October, 2011

2. Survey demographics
Respondents (198 total)
BI or IT professional 64%
BI sponsor or user 7%
BI consultant 21%
Company size
Other 5%
Small (<$50M)
23%
Large ($1B)
47%
Medium ($50M
to $1B) 30%

3. Desired end-user capabilities for
casual user BI tools
Ease of use 75% 20%
Response time performance 38% 48%
Visualization 30% 43%
Interactivity (drill, filter, rank, sort, visualize) 33% 40%
Self-service (create new… 34% 31%
Analytic flexibility (create custom… 16% 33%
Mobility 19% 24%
Collaboration 11% 25%
Metadata-driven search 13% 23%
Predictive modeling 8% 17%
Very High High

4. Satisfaction with current BI tools for
casual users
Very high 7%
High 32%
Moderate 37%
Fair 12%
Low 5%
Doesn't apply 8%

5. Satisfaction with BI tools by company
size
Small Companies 15% 29%
Medium Companies 7% 28%
Large Companies 3% 32%
Very High High

6. Desired IT capabilities for casual user
BI tools
Cost to maintain 41% 40%
Data scalability 34% 42%
Time to deploy 36% 39%
End-to-end functionality 29% 46%
User scalability 28% 46%
Design 18% 50%
Cost to buy 35% 30%
Administration 19% 39%
Enterprise pedigree 15% 24%
Very high High

7. Satisfaction with IT capabilities of BI
tools
Very high 10%
High 32%
Moderate 37%
Fair 8%
Low 5%
Doesn't apply 8%

8. Data sources for BI tools
A data warehouse 70%
A data mart 59%
Local files (e.g., Excel) 36%
An operational data store 35%
Transaction systems directly 24%
An in-memory database 18%
A dynamic data cache 17%
A database appliance 17%
NoSQL databases (e.g., documents, Web… 5%
Other 9%

9. In-memory architectures
Intelligent In-memory
Caches Databases
Data
Database Server
Cache Data
Logic Logic
Application Server
GUI
GUI
Desktop/Web/Device

10. Contact
Wayne Eckerson
weckerson@bileader.com