Report Debunks BI Usage Myth

The latest installment of the BI Survey (formerly OLAP Survey) from the Business Application Research Center (BARC) serves up more than a few surprises. It also explodes a few myths.

Business intelligence vendors like to talk up a 20/80 split -- i.e., in any given organization, only 20 percent of users are actually consuming BI technologies; the remaining 80 percent are disenfranchised. According to BI Survey 8, however, most shops clock in at far below the 20 percent rate. In any given BI-using organization, notes Nigel Pendse, a principal with BARC and the primary architect of BI Survey, just over 8 percent of employees are actually using BI tools.

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