InetSoft on DM Radio: The Next Generation of BI

This is the continuation of the transcript of DM Radio’s program titled “The Consumerization of Business Intelligence: How and Why.”

Eric Kavanagh:  Yeah.  It makes a lot of sense, and let’s use that as our sort of closing concept here, the next generation of BI.  I guess first I will throw it out to Byron, as this consumerization trend sort of shakes out overtime, what do you see as the end result in a year or two years’ time?

Bryon Igoe:  Sure.  I think that we are going to see major advances in collaboration.  Now that individual people have more self-service, we are going to start seeing teams building again, where groups of people can get together and analyze things more easily.

Eric Kavanagh:  Great comment.  And Francois, what about you, where are things going?

Francois Ajenstat:  Well, I think it's a play on collaboration, but the next step of analysis is really to start sharing.  And so, I am seeing this big trend around storytelling and using data to tell stories and really bringing people into the analysis or into the insights that you want to share.
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Eric Kavanagh:  That makes a lot of sense, too.  And Tracie, what do you see, what’s the next big thing?

Tracie Kambies:  I think it's a lot of sensing, both sensing of how people are responding to the information and I think more listening to what’s going on and how people are collaborating.  I think that it's just about being able to interact with the data through all of our senses.  And I think that’s where it's going.  We are going to be able to consume more of that sensing information even from the end consumers to bring those learnings back into execution in the BI space.

Eric Kavanagh:  Yeah.  And Justin, I thought you made a really good point right at the top of the hour about the number of millennials that will be in the workforce in, what was it 2020 or something, it's really not that far?

Justin Kern:  I forget, where I think AIIM had a stat a couple of years ago, or last year.  And it kind of speaks to what Tracie talked about earlier about the child with the Tablet, and I think that that intuitive sense of being able to take in data, to know you can collaborate, to want to collaborate with it, kind of speaks to this overall trend.

Eric Kavanagh:  Yeah, that’s a good point.  And I think whoever it was that mentioned it, I think it was Tracie, you had talked about the four-year-old with an iPad.  I can't remember where I saw this, but boy, it was really pretty compelling.  There was a baby or like maybe a one-year-old who had a magazine in front of her or him and was trying to do the gestures on the magazine, just move around and it's like holy cow, I mean if that’s not a window into the transformation taking place, I don’t know what is. 

I mean, I remember just as a final comment, this is probably about, oh gosh, more than 11 or 12 years ago. I got the JazzFest schedule which always comes in, well truth be told it’s not the most well-organized little pamphlet but it's kind of a fold-out kind of thing that shows all the bands.  But it's not in alphabetical order and it's in kind of small type so you really have to sit there and read to figure out who is on which day.  And I felt myself wanting to be able to do Ctrl F on the document to find the band name that I want, and I am like, oh yeah, you can't do that on a printed document, can you?  So things are changing; behavior is changing.

And wow, we burned through a whole hour.  So, big thank you to all of our guests today, big thank you to the MDM & Data Governance Summit, www.mdm-summit.com.  Wow, things are changing folks, but we are trying to stay on top of it, here on DM Radio.  We will catch up to you next time.  Take care.  Bye-bye.

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