These Trends Will Shape BI in 2019

Analytics have come a long way – from data warehousing and manual report building to centralised data in the cloud and machine learning driven analytics. Business Intelligence (BI) tools were revolutionary when they arrived: they made analytics more accessible to the wider business users. Their speedy and powerful analytics provided insights that businesses only dreamt off in the past. But as technology advances, so has the analytics world evolved.

Cloud data management CDM is simply data management that involves clouds. For example, when focused on data persistence, CDM provides cloud-native data storage and optimized processing for the burgeoning volumes of enterprise data, big data, and data from new sources that users are choosing to manage and use on clouds. When focused on integration, CDM provides data integration infrastructure (with related functions for quality and semantics) to unify multicloud and hybrid on-premises/cloud environments.

Modern enterprises are struggling to gain insights from an exploding number of database management systems and ever-growing data volumes. SQL Server 2019 can help you overcome the challenges of integrating data and bring AI and machine learning to all of your data, structured and unstructured. It can also help you better manage your relational data right now. In this webinar, Introduction to SQL Server 2019, hear from Debbi Lyons, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Travis Wright, Principal Program Manager, and Bob Ward, Principal Architect at Microsoft discuss the latest updates and features for the new SQL Server release, including introducing the new big data cluster with intelligence over any data, how SQL Server 2019 enhances the developer experience, and using tools including Azure Data Studio.

According to PwC, nearly 4 out of 5 CEOs believe that remote collaboration will last after the pandemic. And Gartner predicts that through 2025, 80% of organizations trying to scale digital business will fail because they don’t take a modern approach to data and analytics governance.