As the sheer amount of information available for Business Intelligence (BI) applications has grown, and the sophistication of BI capabilities has accelerated, organizations are striving to improve time-to-information for business users. Data Storage and retrieval decisions have started to be made based on cost rather that fulfilling a business need, and this has let to compromises that impact business performance.

Aberdeen Group conducted a research program and presented this report in which they investigated the strategies, capabilities, and supporting technologies that Best-in-Class companies are employing to alleviate the pressure to accelerate the delivery of actionable information within their enterprises.