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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