IDC InfoBrief: Cloud Business Intelligence and Analytics

Authors
Chandana Gopal, Research Director, Business Analytics, IDC
Dan Vesset, Group Vice President, Analytics and Information Management
In Partnership With

Modern Cloud Analytics

IDC InfoBrief: Cloud Business Intelligence and Analytics

Modern analytics platforms empower knowledge workers by allowing them to explore the right data at the right time, derive insights, and determine a course of action without constraints on data type, volume or location, or dependence on IT. Modern Cloud Analytics unlocks new self-service, advanced analytics usage patterns within enterprises. Read this IDC InfoBrief for industry trends and market insights to support building your business case for modernizing your analytics platform in the cloud:

  • Research supporting a new priority on self-service, governed analytics and data for driving critical decisions and actions
  • Trends on how analytics in the cloud can address challenges of traditional analytics platforms around cost, scalability and agility
  • Industry insights on cloud adoption and key considerations for analytics in the cloud

Learn more about modernizing your analytics platform with Tableau and AWS.


Get the whitepaper

Complete the form to access this and the rest of the great content on Tableau.com.


Already have a Tableau.com account? Sign in here

Tableau product screenshots
Address

About the authors

image

Chandana Gopal

Research Director, Business Analytics, IDC

Chandana Gopal is Research Director for IDC Business Analytics Solutions market research and advisory practice. Ms. Gopal's core research coverage includes demand and supply trends in business intelligence advanced and predictive analytics, and enterprise performance management markets. Based on her background in integration and analytics, Ms. Gopal's research includes a particular emphasis on how analytics is being embedded into software applications, how artificial intelligence is being embedded into business analytics software, and how end users requirements are driving technology design.

BACKGROUND

Chandana Gopal has been an analyst IDC for several years. Early on as an analyst she covered CRM applications, but more recently her work has been in integration middleware covering markets such as API management, file sync and share, and B2B integration. Ms. Gopal's research specialty includes doing detailed technical evaluations driven by her prior experience in Deloitte Consulting and Wipro Information Systems, where she focused on software implementations and business strategy development.

EDUCATION/INDUSTRY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Mysore University, India
  • M.B.A in Information Systems from Boston College
  • Frequent speaker, presenter and moderator at industry conferences as well as women in technology events
  • Regular contributor to media outlets like CNBC and vendor press releases
image

Dan Vesset

Group Vice President, Analytics and Information Management

Dan Vesset is Group Vice President of IDC's Analytics and Information Management market research and advisory practice, where he leads a group of analysts covering all aspects of structured data and unstructured content processing, integration, management, governance, analysis, and visualization. Mr. Vesset also leads IDC's global Big Data and Analytics research pillar. His research is focused on best practices in the application of business intelligence, analytics, and enterprise performance management software and processes on decision support and automation, and data monetization.