Self-service BI

Analysts and users always need data warehouses to evolve at a faster pace. This is the second wave of BI and it happened when major BI players such as Microsoft and Click came with tools that enabled users to merge some data with or without data warehouses. In many enterprises, this is used as a temporary source of analytics or proof of concept. On the other hand, not every data could fit at that time in data warehouses. Many ad hoc reports were, and are still, using self-service BI tools. Here is a short list of such tools:

• Microsoft Power Pivot
• Microsoft Power BI
• Click