The inexhaustible demand for faster and easier access to data for business users calls for a new type of BI strategy - one that allows BI teams to keep up with the frequency of requests and growing complexity of new data sources. Modern BI platforms allow for this speed and agility by giving business users the ability to do their own data exploration within a governed environment, without the need for a massive team of data analysts and integration experts to implement and maintain it.

In this book, we’ll explain how the modern BI work flow stacks up against legacy BI in six short steps, covering everything from loading data and data modeling to building dashboards and governing users and data.