1. Collaboration-mining arrives.

The pandemic rendered collaboration and BI inseparable. The massive shift to work-from-home made it imperative to quickly embed BI within workstreams and productivity apps like Teams, Slack, and Zoom. And once we were no longer bounded by physical space, opportunities opened up for more collaboration with outside stakeholders.

But collaboration at the end of the chain, after insights are found, is only one piece of the puzzle. Collaboration has to begin earlier, as derivative data gets generated and amid exploring, discussing, and arriving at insights that can be immediately actioned. Nothing de-siloes data like collaboration.

As collaboration spreads across the analytics workflow, we’ll increasingly be able to look at its mechanics, striving to improve the way we come together around data, networks, and processes. In other words, just as we’ve learned to mine data and processes, we’ll see the advent of “collaboration mining.” This will enable decisions to be tracked, providing crucial auditability and boosting trust with multiple stakeholders. And we’ll say goodbye to erasing the white board when everyone leaves the conference room.

COMPELLING EVENT

Nearly 4 out of 5 CEOs believe that remote collaboration will be an enduring shift after the COVID-19 pandemic.⁶

ANALYST PREDICTION

By 2023, 30% of organizations will harness the collective intelligence of their analytics communities, outperforming competitors that rely solely on centralized analytics or self-service.⁷

Gartner®

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