Five Business Intelligence Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2022

29.03.22 06:59 PM By CreatorScripts

While many businesses are still hurting from the events of the past two years, others are delivering on their promises. Regardless of where your company falls on this spectrum, business intelligence is a critical enabler for firms to properly manage this issue. That's why we've compiled a list of the top 5 BI trends we believe will help you succeed in 2022.

1. Cloud analytics

The digital exodus of 2020 and 2021 isn't going away anytime soon. Companies have improved access to data by shifting data to the cloud, allowing them to sustain cooperation and productivity across a remote workforce. Companies are taking advantage of cloud analytics' capabilities to extract actionable, timely insights from their data. Business and BI suppliers are bringing BI closer to data to improve business efficiencies. Depending on funding, security and compliance, hardware, and other factors, analytics can be deployed on public, private, hybrid, multi, or community clouds, or as microservices. As a result, the adoption of cloud analytics will be expedited.

2. Analytics and data management in one place

Thanks to the careful integration of the BI stack, reporting/visualization apps have been transformed into modern BI and analytics platforms. Some of the most exciting additions and consolidations are happening at the data preparation layer. Data integration, preparation, management, and insights are all part of the BI workflow. AI and machine learning capabilities in the BI stack will continue to revolutionize self-service BI and analytics. Automation will democratize and simplify corporate intelligence and analytics for everyone.

3. Augmented analytics


A variety of analytics consumption points has resulted from the increased usage of technology and applications. For BI vendors, in-context analytics is increasingly becoming a must-have feature. Analytics platforms are progressively incorporating AI and machine learning capabilities across several points in any business workflow for contextual insight discovery. The translation of NLQ capabilities into immersive dialogues is hastening the adoption of BI by business users. These advancements will significantly broaden the reach of search-driven analytics.


Decision intelligence is also gaining popularity in the business world. These are decision-making aids that assist humans in making better decisions. One such enabler is automated insights. It adds narrative-based insights to images, giving users more weapons to make better decisions.

As self-learning and deep-learning machine learning models are integrated across the BI workflow, artificial intelligence will become smarter and more scalable.

4. Unified business analytics


As more firms use business applications, BI platforms are becoming more data agnostic and expanding their stable of business app connections. As a result, data integrators will gain.

Rather than having to design reports and dashboards, businesses can gain insights faster with native app connections and developments in prebuilt, domain-specific data models. These models can also be set up to respond to specific company needs.

Analyzing complex information is getting easier and faster because to auto modeling and blending capabilities. This opens the way for real-time, cross-functional analytics to provide 360-degree business insights.

5. Data storytelling

The ROI and usability of dashboards are being questioned! Businesses seek data and insights that are presented without bias, with appropriate empathy and context, so that teams can make more informed decisions.


BI vendors are also experimenting with innovative approaches for demystifying complex KPIs and humanizing data interactions. Consumerized insight delivery experiences include presentations, purpose-built portals, documents, and more.

These dynamic insight delivery platforms are becoming even more engaging and interactive with the usage of AI.

Organizations all around the world are rapidly investing in BI and analytics due to the never-ending need to examine data. In this situation, keeping an eye on the market's pulse is vital in order to stay on top of the latest developments.


These patterns can be used as a baseline for embracing BI and analytics or assessing vendors for your analytical needs.

As one of the first users of these technologies, Zoho Analytics is altering the way businesses make data-driven decisions. The overwhelming favorable response to the launch of Zoho Analytics as a modern self-service BI and analytics platform indicates that our efforts and resources are aligned with the needs of today's modern businesses.


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