Watching the new, easy-to-use, exploratory business intelligence products edge out the older, feature-bloated reporting platforms for systems of record is like watching evolution in action. Let’s face it: The first-generation BI products required their own IT priesthood to set up, and they incurred the same implementation delays as every other IT project. Things got worse, not better, as the various BI product marketers got into feature wars instead of actually trying to deliver business value.

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