B
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70%
70% -- business intelligence project failure rate for Business intelligence projects (2026)
Between 70% and 80% of business intelligence projects fail due to skipping the semantic layer that makes numbers meaningful.
- Reported as a range between 70% and 80%
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70%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Gartner
Primary
Tier C
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Gartner
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Range 70-80%, midpoint used; cited via Gartner on RevOpsAF podcast
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Business intelligence projects: 70% business intelligence project failure rate. Source: Gartner (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gartner-bi-project-failure-rate
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