BI tools have evolved from being reactive instruments to proactive assets. They have grown from static to dynamic and transformed from reflective to predictive. They’ve passed from the hands of power users to give power to the users.
As BI continues on its path of evolution, let’s take a look at some the most exciting new trends that are shaping the future of business analytics.

• Self-Service BI
For businesses intelligence to succeed, business dashboards and analytics need to be made accessible to business users at all levels. To ensure optimal decisions at all levels, BI vendors and consumers must recognize that every business user is a decision maker at some point along the value chain, and that all business users require self-service dashboard analytics forfast, accurate, and effective decision-making.
Self -service BI apps allow non -technical business users to explore, create, manage, and share their own analytics, reports, and dashboards, without waiting for IT to deliver information
• Collaborative Analytics
In today’s environment of instant messaging, social networks, tweets, and text messages, business users expect to be able to communicate with co-workers and share information immediately. The lack of a collaborative social networking functionality in current BI solutionsleads to huge inefficiencies. Static ERP reports need to be emailed back and forth, spread sheets need to be compiled and version control remains an issue.
An indispensible feature in next-generation solutions is collaborative analytics,where business users can share and collaborate on the latest KPI’s, reports, and dashboard metrics in an intuitive Facebook-like experience. This can help business users to:
o Drive alignment and consensus, to make better decisions based on their organization’s collective intelligence.
o Create stores for information and communication that span the whole value chain- from managers to suppliers.
o Obtain, strengthen, and communicate insights more efficiently.

• Mobile BI
Although its actual adoption numbers haven’t significantly risen since its advent, Mobile Business Intelligence is still the most exciting developments in BI today.Mobility promises to change the face of business intelligence,offering new opportunities for information consumption at all levelsand new ways to interact with data. However, we are still far away from the ideal ‘pervasive BI’.Industry analysts forecast an exponential growth in the adoption of mobile BI in the coming years, making it vital for vendorsto deliver flexible multi-platform supporting BI apps.

• Predictive Analytics
In today’s highly volatile business climate, being able to foresee and prepare for future events can be a key differentiator between an organization’s success and failure. This has caused a rapid increase in demand for BI solutions that provide advanced predictive analytic applications such asdemand forecasting and what-if analysis Through real-time monitoring and regular reporting and analysis, new BI applications help managers to analyze trends in operations, track and mitigate irregularities, and build financial models and accurate sales forecasts that help them make better product planning and buying.