Self-service analytics tools hand BI power to business users

Self-service analytics tools are now driving most new deployments of BI and data visualization software, according to Gartner. A project at Indiana University is a case in point. In 2015, IU put together a team of data analysts and architects to implement and then operate a BI system with Tableau Software's self-service analytics software. The university uses Denodo Technologies' data virtualization tools to pull data from various internal systems for analysis and visualization in Tableau.