Post on 17-Jul-2015
2015 BI AGILITY SURVEY
Table of Contents
Who Responded
Company Sizes
Industries
Time to Build
Team Structures
Workloads
Backlogs
Report Nightmares
Key Take-Aways 1
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Demographics Reporting Trends Lessons Learned
People Who Took the Survey 1
60 Respondents Titles
Director CIO VP
Departments
BI IT
Analytics
Company Size Breakdown 2
Large $5B+
Medium $300M to $5B+
Small <$300M
Responses By Industry 3
How Long Do Reports Take? 4
40% Said Simple Reports Still
Take Multiple Days to Build
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.!!
Who Builds Reports? 5
87% Said Complex Reports take
more than one person to build
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.!!
What’s Your Typical Workload? 6
8% Said they get 20+
report requests per week
Typical Report Workload? (cont.) 6
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
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.!!
Your Worst Reporting Nightmare? 8
1 Most common complaint:
managing the complexity of Enterprise-Wide BI
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Your Worst Reporting Nightmare (cont.) 8
Enterprise-Wide Complexity
Last-Minute Firedrills
Limited Resources
Slow Queries
Knowledge Gaps
Reporting Nightmare Wordle (cont.) 8
Key Take-Aways 9
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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