Next generation business intelligence (BI) tools are providing simple, integrated environments that allow seamless user experience for moving from one dimension of BI to another. Instead of the static environments of old BI, new tools are more interactive, visual, and ad hoc, allowing users easy, detailed analysis, and customized, self-service reporting.

Not only is it much quicker to deploy, but new BI is also easier to manage, enabling more users and adding to a proactive environment in which professionals across departments can update databases and push the output anywhere, from their desktop to their tablets or smart phones. And to keep competitive, query response time is now faster than ever, with in-memory caches and databases for improved performance.

To learn about all this and more, check out this quick video to hear industry expert Wayne Eckerson discuss everything you need to know about next generation BI and compare old and new environments from both a user and IT administrator point of view.