Forecast for Cloud BI and Data Management:

Hot and Rising

Until recently, adoption rates for cloud BI limped along at about 30%, but that is changing as data gravity shifts to the cloud. According to a new study by BARC and Eckerson Group, that figure has jumped to 43% and our experts expect it to continue growing. This infographic depicts key trends in the adoption of the cloud by companies that have BI and data management programs. It also captures the drivers, benefits and challenges companies face when implementing cloud BI.

Cloud BI is at a tipping point

The percentage of companies running BI or data management components in the cloud has increased by 48% since 2013.

2013

29%

2016

43%

Small and medium-sized companies lead the way

Small and medium-sized companies are moving to the cloud faster than large companies

Small and medium-sized Large

BI tools67%

56%

BI servers58%

44%

Visual discovery tools

55%

41%

Data Warehouses

48%

31%

ETL/Data Integration

40%

28%

Data preparation

37%

28%

BI

DataManagement

North America leads Europe

Almost half of North American firms surveyed have adopted cloud BI compared to about one-third of European firms.

North America

48%

Europe

32%

40%No hardware or infrastructure costs

35%Scalability (users & data)

33%Low administration costs

30%Reduced implementation time

23%Availability

Source: BARC Survey ‘BI and Data Management in the Cloud: Issues and Trends‘, January 2017

The Survey "BI and Data Management in the Cloud: Issues and Trends" is written by BARC and the Eckerson Group, both independant market analysis companies. This study is available free of charge thanks to the generosity of Birst, Jedox, Qlik, SAS and Tableau.

Challenges

The clear number one challenge right now is security, with legal issues and politics also among the top five. Performance and loading times present

further - more technical - challenges for companies implementing BI and data management in the cloud.

Security

45%

Legalissues37%

Performance

29%

Politics

27%

Loadtimes20%

Benefits

There is a broad range of achieved benefits with cloud BI and data management solutions, ranging from cost and time reduction to increased

scalability and availability.

Use cases

The top three use cases for cloud data management show the high importanceof data integration in the cloud - both between cloud applications and

databases and between cloud and on-premises applications.

57% 27%Ad hoc analysis and exploration

55% 24%Report/dashboard authoring

76% 14%Report/dashboard consumption

50%Provide data warehouses/data marts

46%Data integration between on premises and cloud applications

51%Data integration between cloud applications/databases

Report and dashboard consumption is the dominant use case for cloud BI. Ad hoc analysis and exploration, and report/dashboard authoring also score

significant adoption.

In use Planned