To fix BI, build it into your applications
Business intelligence (BI) was once heralded as a technology that would democratize data, enabling everyone to become more productive and make better decisions. Today, though, analysts in the BI space like to share the same (and possibly apocryphal) statistic: The global business intelligence adoption rate is only 26 percent.
If only 26 percent of potential users ever access BI, something is broken. Why is access so poor? What can developers and engineers do to make BI achieve its full potential?