Business Application Research Center

Many reporting systems today are failing to provide adequate support to users while much of the content created is unused or lacks relevance to the most important business questions. Building and maintaining traditional solutions is expensive and fails to satisfy users in many cases. Today’s data-literate users want governed and scalable self-service BI functions to answer critical business questions and to get the most out of their data assets.

The BARC study addresses the following questions:

• Which approaches do companies take to improve their reporting landscape?

• What are the most important types of reports and distribution channels in companies today and in the future?

• What are the key challenges for the enterprise reporting environment?