As Business Intelligence (BI) moves towards the masses, two popular forces are colliding to create a lot of energy and excitement: Predictive Analytics, and Agile BI. Agile BI is all about enabling every day business users to access their business information to perform discovery and analysis tasks wherever and whenever they want to. Unlike the days of old, business people no longer need to rely on outside experts to prepare information or interpret results. Information is available readily on a wide range of devices, on-demand, in a format that is easy to work with. Agile BI has been driven by ...

There has been a lot of recent writing and talk about the advent of agile BI. The basic idea is that business people can access their BI systems from anywhere at any time to make quick, fact-based decisions on-the-fly. There are three core components to Agile BI:   Quick and flexible access to data   Intuitive display and easy interaction   Access from anywhere, at any time New in-memory based data storage technologies have enabled business people to have easy and quick access to their corporate data. Rather than residing in pre-structured database tables, large amounts of information can now be placed in-memory ...

The topic “Agile Business Intelligence” (“Agile BI”) is picking up momentum with industry analysts and the trade press. More and more we read about BI being available to every-day business users, not just a handful of key staff in IT or power user business analysts. This new paradigm is enabling more people to make better and faster decisions on their own, without relying on other experts to prepare or interpret their data. This webinar will focus on the following questions: • What exactly is agile BI? • How does Agile BI enable every-day business people to access their data? • How is Agile ...