The document provides an author profile of an MBA student at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management who has over 5 years of experience as a subject matter expert in SAP BI/Analytics suites for large multinationals. It also shares two Gartner predictions: by 2021, 76% of BI functionality will be consumed via handheld devices, and by 2020, 75% of BI deployments will combine BI, collaboration and social software into decision-making environments.