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Actian Publishes a New Survey

By Raju Shanbhag
TMCnet Contributor

Looking to give a realistic picture of how Business Intelligence (BI) is perceived as well as its usage patterns within large enterprises, Actian has announced the results of a survey.

To take action based on reports, users cited a range of reasons for lack of use, including non-intuitive design, and a mismatch of output data to business needs. In addition, claiming that such functionality would be useful or very useful, 69 percent of respondents wanted access to BI on their mobile devices, something that to date has not been available, especially within the confines of the enterprise. More than three quarters (76.2 percent) wanted users to have the ability to set event triggers based on real time data analytics.

“These results will come as no surprise to anyone who has worked in the data analytics space over the past couple of years," said Steve Shine, CEO, Actian. "Our customers regularly report on the stagnation of BI, as well as an inability to keep pace with the consumer technology that users enjoy in their personal lives. Actian is connecting the gap between big data analytics and consumer style apps to bring action to BI.”

Polling 918 organizations, this worldwide survey was carried out by Actian. The poll found that 76 percent of respondents with BI solutions available to them recorded use at just five percent of their time or less. Respondents consisted of BI power users, managers and executives, 74 percent of which have BI implementations, the company stated.

Recently, the company announced that TimoCom, the market leader in European freight exchange, selected the industry's fastest data analytics engine, VectorWise, to provide intelligent control and analysis of its 300,000 daily international cargo space and freight offers from more than 85,000 users. Since it was launched in June 2010, VectorWise has successfully achieved performance increases in commercial deployments of 100x that of existing databases, by utilizing the latent processing power in modern hardware.