Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) systems were not very savvy in terms of providing the insights that employees were actually looking for. Every time they needed to ask questions about their data or generate new reports or update existing ones, they were forced to reach out to the IT department – not only did it cause time lags, but there were also inherent inaccuracies to deal with.

Self-service Business Intelligence and Analytics transforms this scenario by enabling users to make key decisions based on their own queries and analyses. Further, it also saves time for the organization’s business intelligence and information technology (IT) teams, who’d otherwise have to spend a considerable length of time in creating reports.

With self service BI and analytics, these teams can instead focus on other tasks that will enable the organization to achieve its objectives

There are multiple benefits that self service analytics bring to the table:

Fast, intuitive responses without any need for specific expertise

Eliminates the need to wait for weeks to get answers to queries

Users can leverage browser based access from anywhere they have a network connection to get the information they require

Require minimal to zero training. Support costs are minimal as well

CIOs and chief data officers implementing traditional BI systems have realized the need to let business users build their own flexible and custom reports and dashboards implementing a Bi Modal BI strategy.