BI Citizen-Developer-Authored Apps Risk Assessment

October 18th, 2023

Boris Evelson Vice President, Principal Analyst

With contributors:

Aaron Katz , Michele Goetz , Kim Herrington , Diego Lo Giudice , Karsten Monteverde , Fayzan Sabri , Jen Barton

Summary

Data democratization, low-code platforms, citizen developers, and citizen data scientists work in the opposite direction from tight data governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance. Finding the right middle ground between these forces is a delicately orchestrated process that Forrester calls business intelligence (BI) governance. Technology and data executives can use this tool to jump-start BI governance processes by assessing the risk of BI applications developed by non-application/non-data professionals.

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