Five Key Business Intelligence Trends You Need to Know

Business intelligence is one of the top technology priorities for companies today. Here are five trends smart IT leaders are examining to get insight from their organization's avalanches of data.

Trend No. 5: Applications Will Provide New Views of Business Intelligence Data.

The next generation of business intelligence applications is moving beyond the pie charts and bar charts into more visual depictions of data and trends. Witness products like JMP (from SAS), Spotfire (from Tibco), Tableau, Thinkmap and others provide visualization for complex data.

Alternative ways of displaying complex data—to increase interaction and usefulness—is an area that will continue growing in the coming years, say Evelson and Hagerty.

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