{"id":1352,"slug":"logi-analytics-45pct-bi-usage-vendor","title":"\"Only 45% of people with access to BI tools actually use them\" — traces to Logi Analytics (BI vendor) report, not independent research","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","smb-owner","candid-team"],"topics":["editorial-discipline","citation-practices","dashboards","bi-tools-landscape"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** The commonly cited \"**only 45% of people with access to BI tools actually use them**\" traces to a **Logi Analytics (BI vendor)** report, not independent research.\n\n**Source:** Logi Analytics report (re-quoted across vendor blogs).\n\n**Confidence:** Single-source / vendor.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** Pair with [[60-70pct-dashboards-untraceable-vendor-folklore]] and [[luzmo-72pct-vendor-survey-dashboards-2025]] — the dashboard-adoption discourse is dominated by vendor figures that converge on a \"dashboards are broken, buy ours\" narrative. The defensible position is BARC / Gartner adoption data ([[barc-eckerson-25pct-bi-adoption-2022]]).","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"60-70pct-dashboards-untraceable-vendor-folklore","title":"CORRECTION: the viral \"60-70% (or 60-80%) of dashboards go unused (Gartner)\" stat cannot be traced to any named Gartner report — vendor folklore","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-dashboards-smb-june-2026","title":"Research brief: dashboards for SMBs — what's worth showing, and when an embedded one earns its keep (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"caveats-dashboards-vendor-marketing-base","title":"Caveats for the dashboards brief: pervasive BI/embedded-analytics vendor sourcing; the viral \"60-70%\" stat is folklore; SMB data thin; retention claims unproven","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"rule-disregard-vendor-bi-stats-cite-barc-gartner-adoption","title":"R5 — Disregard vendor BI \"X% improvement\" / \"60-70% unused\" stats in client conversations; cite BARC (~25%) and Gartner (~30%) adoption baselines","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-20T18:03:12.118Z","updated_at":"2026-06-20T18:03:12.118Z"}