Improving Organizational Decision-Making Through: Pervasive Business Intelligence - The Five Key Factors That Lead to Business Intelligence Diffusion

Evidence of the competitive value of Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. BI and Data Warehouse (DW) tools and analytic applications - a set of technologies and processes that IDC refers to as business analytics - are being deployed to support decision making. An increasing number of organizations are making BI functionality more pervasively available to all decision makers, be they executives, staff employees, managers, or suppliers. But having BI is pervasively available in an organization means much more than distributing reports to all stakeholders.