Agile BI: Complementing Traditional BI to Address the Shrinking Decision-Window

Aberdeen's business intelligence research increasingly finds that business users are pressured to make decisions more rapidly. Over a quarter (28%) of organizations that took part in Aberdeen's research into agile business intelligence needed to provide information about business events to managers within one hour of those events occurring, in order for them to make timely management decisions. The traditional managed reporting approach to BI is challenged to keep up with new and/or changing demand for business information and the growing volumes of source data. This research finds that providing business users with highly visual / interactive tools can help to ensure they get the information they need when they need it.