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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

As Business Objects founder Bernard Liautaud notes in e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information Into Knowledge Into Profit (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the lack of ad hoc data access causes IT staff to drown in requests. At Alation, we believe self-service has three unique stakeholders: End users trying to discover data for decision making.