From Nike+ and Fitbit to nuclear plants and corporate databases, embedded analytics are everywhere (infographic)

Embedded analytics sounds complicated, but it’s nothing more than Nike+ tracking your workout, or Fitbit telling you how many steps you took today. Or General Electric building embedded sensors and data viewing devices into a nuclear power plant.

Five years ago, though, analytics was an Excel spreadsheet from accounting, or a complicated application that corporations spent millions on and business analysts pulled data from with blood, sweat, and tears. We’ve already come a long way, but in just a few more years, a full 25 percent of analytics capabilities will be embedded within business applications, according to Jaspersoft, which powers 130,000 apps with embedded business intelligence features.

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But we’re not there yet.

Even though analytics is already a $34 billion industry, only 25 percent of workers have access to BI tools — mostly due to costs that are still too high, and complexity, which is still too great.

More data, and the solution, in the infographic below:

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