Advanced Analytics and Business

Intelligence in the Cloud for 2015:A Review of EMA Research

John L Myers

Enterprise Management Associates

Managing Research Director

JMyers@EnterpriseManagement.com

@johnlmyers44

Lyndsay Wise

Enterprise Management Associates

Research Director

LWise@EnterpriseManagement.com

@wiseAnalytics

Featured Speakers

John Myers, Managing Research Director, EMA

John has over 10 years of experience working in areas related to business

analytics in professional services consulting and product development

roles. He helps organizations solve their business analytics problems,

whether they relate to operational platforms – such as customer care or

billing – or applied analytical applications – such as revenue assurance or

fraud management.

Lyndsay Wise, Research Director, EMA

Lyndsay joined EMA in 2015 as research director for business

intelligence (BI) and data warehousing, focusing on data integration,

data governance, cloud technologies, data visualization, analytics,

and collaboration. She has over 10 years experience in software

research, BI consulting, and strategy development, specializing in

software evaluation and best-fit solution selection.

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Research Sponsors

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Agenda

• Research Highlights

• Survey Respondents

• Drivers

• Business

• Technical

• Financial

• Cloud-based Analytics and Business Intelligence Projects

• Architectures

• Full platforms and data management

• Strategy

• Data Integration

• Question and Answer

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Research Methodology

• Highly Qualified

• Global in Coverage

• Balanced – Business and IT

• Real World Insights

• Over 670 active cloud-based analytics and business intelligence

projects

• Over 1500 projects overall (2014 and 2015) for trending purposes

• Sponsors, workloads and more

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2015 Cloud-based Analytics and

Business Intelligence Highlights

Cloud Analytics Maturity

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Project Funding

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Security

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Survey Respondents

Panel Respondents

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Respondents from

business and technology

leaders around the world.

465Respondents across

2014 and 2015 surveys.

Company Size

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Industry Segments

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Drivers of Cloud-based Analytics and

Business Intelligence

Business Drivers

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Technical Drivers

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Financial Drivers

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Cloud-based Analytics and Business

Intelligence Projects

Total Projects

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Cloud-based analytics and

business intelligence projects

from 208 respondents

1511Total projects from 2014 and

2015 respondents

Project Goals

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3% 2%Risk Management Exploration and

Discovery

Project Sponsors

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Data Consumers

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What’s Being Done In The Cloud?

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Cloud-based Analytics and Business

Intelligence Architectures

Integrated Platforms in the Cloud

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26.8%

Private Cloud

20.6%

Hybrid Cloud11.9 %Public Cloud

Data Management in the Cloud

27.4%

Private Cloud

20.9%

Hybrid Cloud11.6 %Public Cloud

Self-Service Importance

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Respondents indicated

Self-service as critical

%

Increase over 2014

respondents

%

Leading Business Intelligence Architecture

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Respondents indicated

they had a Business

Analytics strategy in a

cloud implementation

%

Data Integration: Developing A Strong Cloud Strategy

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Where to go from here?

• Increase in Cloud

Analytics project maturity

• Sponsorship transitioning

to IT as Cloud Analytics

goes enterprise

• Self-service and

information exploration

continues to be important

irrespective of platform

type

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Question and Answer:

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Get the 2015 “Advanced Analytics and Business

Intelligence in the Cloud” Research Report at

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