Business Application Research Center (BARC) is a research and consulting firm that concentrates on enterprise software including business intelligence (BI), analytics and data management. Dashboard-based reporting (76%), ad-hoc analysis and exploration (57%) and dashboard authoring (55%) are the top three Cloud BI use cases. Casual users are 20% of all cloud BI and analytics, with their most common use being for reporting and dashboards (76%). Respondent organizations are using the cloud to integration cloud applications with each other and with on-premises applications (46%). 63% of small companies with less than 250 employees are prioritizing data integration between cloud applications and databases (63%).

Source: Forbes February 26, 2017 17:50 UTC