6. WHY ARE THEY BEING ADOPTED?
GARTNER SAYS
THEY MEET A NEED
Small and midsize (SMBs) businesses with a scarcity of resources and skills often find data discovery
tools enough to meet their BI needs
TIME TO VALUE
Light footprint tools can be deployed more quickly than larger platforms.
RAPID PROTOTYPING
An upswing in the adoption of agile methodologies has set the stage for rapid prototyping to be done in
these tools
7. WHY ARE THEY BEING ADOPTED?
GARTNER SAYS
IN MEMORY
Improvements in computer processing and the move to 64 bit, enabling data discovery tools to store
and manipulate large amounts of information in-memory, freeing it from underlying information
infrastructures.
USABILITY
Strong visualization capabilities, intuitive user interfaces and fast query times. Usability is the #1
selection criterion when choosing BI tools
VIRAL SPREADING
Users who like working in the data discovery tools recommend it to their peers and take it with them
when they move to new roles and responsibilities
8. WHY ARE THEY BEING ADOPTED?
GARTNER SAYS
INCREASING BUSINESS UNIT BUYING TOOLS
Cutbacks in IT budgets, shifting necessary investments out to business units;
Perception of needs not being met from the BI tools IT has provided.
Business units are the prime constituency for data discovery tools
