Information Builders has for the fifth consecutive year scored highest in its category in the Dresner Advisory Services’ business intelligence study as a supplier of business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity and integration solutions. Information Builders’ WebFOCUS BI platform was ahead of its peer and industry competitors in metrics such as flexibility, scalability, usability, and customisation.
The report analysed 24 vendors across five market segments. The study examined trends related to BI adoption, implementation goals and deployment success to analyse how organisations are investing in and benefiting from BI and related technologies.
Recent enhancements to Information Builders’ WebFOCUS BI platform include InfoApps. These are interactive BI apps designed to extend self-service BI capabilities to employees. Another enhancement, Skybox is a cloud hosting service to test and develop BI applications.
“The 2014 Wisdom of Crowds report found that dashboards, end-user self-service, data warehousing and advanced visualisation are the leading technologies strategic to business intelligence. The study also found that respondents in executive management expressed the greatest interest in dashboards and advanced visualisation,” says Johan Jurd, MD of InfoBuild, the sole representative of Information Builders in South Africa.
Those in marketing roles prioritised social media analytics and location intelligence, while sales demonstrated high interest in mobile BI. Nearly 40% of respondents across functions reported having a common view of enterprise data, however, those in sales and marketing functions were more likely to question the quality of their data than their counterparts in other roles.
