A new report by Gartner has predicted that data discovery will become a significant future trend for business intelligence (BI) vendors.

The report identified that data discovery will become the prime focus of BI vendors, ahead of report generation.

The report said that: "the majority of current IT-centric vendors will shift the focus of new product investment and platform emphasis from IT-authored production reporting, to governed, business-user-driven data discovery and analysis".

The report also identified that easy-to-use business intelligence tools would become the norm and that competition between system integrators and BI vendors would increase, as analytic applications from the two groups become increasingly similar.

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