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Top 10 Business intelligence trends for 2016

Governance and self-service analytics

Published July 2016

Many people have considered governance and self-service analytics to be natural enemies. Maybe that’s why those people were surprised to see governance and self-service having a drink together. The war is over, and the cultural gap between business and technology is closing.

Organisations have learned that data governance, when done right, can help nurture a culture of analytics and meet the needs of the business. People are more likely to dig into their data when they have centralised, clean, and fast data sources, and when they know that someone (IT) is looking out for security and performance.