With the explosion of data sources and the continuous flow of information into a company, managing data will become a priority for everyone.
The Big Data market, which more than doubled last two years, is forecast to triple in the next four, according to Statista. BI will have to expand its perspective, work with more varied sources of information and expand its client base.
In the past BI was mostly inward looking. It ran data-mining exercises, reviewed corporate performance, developed reports and occasionally dashboards. It was, and still is in many organizations, mostly concerned with operational efficiencies, cost-cutting and benchmarking. Read More