10 Enterprise Analytics Trends to Watch in 2019

10 Enterprise Analytics
Trends to Watch in 2019

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The Future Belongs to the Intelligent Enterprise
To survive and thrive in an era of accelerating digital disruption, organizations require accessible data,
actionable insights, continuous innovation, and disruptive business models. It’s no longer enough to
prioritize and implement analytics – leaders are being challenged to stop doing analytics just for
analytics’ sake and focus on defined business outcomes. The year 2019 will be a turning point for
many organizations that realize being data-driven doesn’t guarantee future success.
As organizations focus their 2020 (and even 2030) vision, MicroStrategy has compiled key trends
enterprise organizations should be watching and acting on from leading influencers in business
intelligence, data analytics and digital transformation, including Forrester’s Mike Gualtieri,
Constellation Research’s Ray Wang and Doug Henschen, Ventana Research’s Mark Smith and David
Menninger, Marcus Borba, Ronald van Loon, IDC’s Chandana Gopal, and many more.
From embedded and AI-augmented analytics to collaborative decision making, a laser focus on
business outcomes, AI strategies, transformational mobility, and answers that find you, we hope you’ll
find this gathering of expert insights an interesting and influential resource for looking and planning
ahead. Get the eBook.

Trend 1:
The Data Mindset Moves from
Visualization to Outcomes
Mike Gualtieri
VP, Principal Analyst
Forrester
Jennifer Belissent
Principal Analyst
Forrester
Cinny Little
Senior Analyst
Forrester

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“Give me a dashboard. Give me a report. Give me better
insights. If that’s your approach, it’s old-school and you’re falling
behind.
Leading enterprises have shifted their data sensibilities to
action-oriented insights. ‘Interesting’ is no longer the standard
for business insights efforts. Instead, insights projects must draw
a straight line from business objectives to business outcomes.”
- Mike Gualtieri, Jennifer Belissent, Cinny Little
Forrester Research
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“According to Forrester Analytics, 57% of global data and
analytics decision makers are still at the early stages of
their insights-driven business transformation and fall into
our beginner maturity segment. Only 8% demonstrate
advanced insights-driven competencies.”
- Forrester Predictions 2019: Business Insights

Trend 2:
Open Black Box in AI
and Augmented Analytics
Marcus Borba
Founder and Principal Consultant
Borba Consulting

“The main use of artificial intelligence applications in business is
automating the process of decision making. However, as artificial
intelligence becomes more sophisticated, concern around the fear of
artificial intelligence systems as black boxes grows. There are several
concerns encompassing various themes:
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• Fairness: How can I check that the decisions were made fairly?
• Bias: How do I know that my AI application does not have a
biased view of the world?
• Security: Can I have confidence in my artificial intelligence
application without an explanation of how it makes
decisions and reaches conclusions?”
- Marcus Borba, Borba Consulting

“IDC predicts the global datasphere will grow from 33
zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025.”
- IDC Data Age 2025 Report

Trend 3:
Self-Service Moves to Self Evident.
Zero-Click, Consumer Grade
Intelligence Arrives
Marge Breya
SEVP & CMO
MicroStrategy

“The design point in business intelligence over the next few
years is not going to be for the 30% that live, love and linger
over box plots, Gantt charts and Sankey diagrams.
The new design point is going to be for every person, and every
device, delivering intelligence in a way that’s easily consumed by
the individual, from a single source of truth. Self-evident
analytics through HyperIntelligence will trump self-service in
2019.”
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- Marge Breya, MicroStrategy

Trend 4:
Embedded Analytics Enables
Success in the Digital Economy
Chandana Gopal
Research Manager,
Analytics and Information Management
IDC

“Success in the digital economy will be enabled by embedding
intelligence into day-to-day business applications so that
knowledge workers at all levels are empowered.
Data volumes and complexity are rapidly increasing, and
enterprises need a clear strategy to provide all knowledge
workers access to data and analytics within their workstreams.”
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- Chandana Gopal, IDC

“Today, business analysts spend 80% of their time on
searching, cleaning, validating and governing data and
only 20% of time on analyzing data. By embedding
intelligence into applications, business users will be able
to focus on new ideas and innovate much faster than
before.”
- Chandana Gopal, IDC

Trend 5:
Leaders Bring Advanced Analytics
into Production at Scale
Doug Henschen
VP and Principal Analyst
Constellation Research

“In short, data maturity is such that having data at scale and
even having solid data management across on-premises and
cloud-based sources is no longer differentiating for the leading
five percent of organizations or the fast-following 15% of
organizations.
As for the 40% - 50% cautious adopters and 20% - 30% laggard
organizations, they’re still learning and struggling, respectively.”
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- Doug Henschen, Constellation Research

“What will be differentiating for leaders and fast followers is
how broadly, how quickly and creatively they make use of all
that data and whether they can do it with solid governance
and compliance. With this in mind, here are the areas where
leaders will need to excel in 2019:
• Bring advanced analytics, including ML and DL, into production at scale.
• Meet low-latency requirements by embracing stream processing
and streaming analytics.
• Get creative with embedded analytics.”
- Doug Henschen, Constellation Research

Read the full insights from these contributors, as well
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• Constellation Research Founder Ray Wang
• Ventana Research CEO Mark Smith
• Ventana Research SVP David Menninger
• Analytics and Digital Transformation
Influencer Ronald van Loon
• and more.

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