How to Make Business Intelligence Agile: The Agile BI Actions Catalog

The need to develop Business Intelligence (BI) systems which are able to react to unforeseen or volatile requirements in a given time frame results from increasingly complex and dynamic organizational environments. This adaptation capability of BI systems is usually referred to as 'BI agility'. Although a consensus within literature exists about the demand for agile BI systems, a structured overview on how such systems can be developed is missing. Closing this research gap, the paper at hand presents a catalog of Agile BI actions which is based on a comprehensive literature review. It includes 21 assessed actions suitable to increase the agility of BI systems. Therefore the catalog provides benefits to scientists (identification of research areas) as well as practitioners (identification of sophisticated actions for implementation). It consists of the four action categories 'principles', 'process models', 'techniques', and 'technologies'.