Companies Can’t Afford to Use BI to Cut Costs?

I talked about this research in a previous post, but thought it was worth pulling out the charts to show the irony: the #1 driver of BI initiatives is "realizing cost efficiencies", but the #1 barrier is… "budget constraints"! Was this interesting? Share with others on Twitter with automatic URL shortening!   Read More →

The #1 BI Investment in 2009 will be… Production Reporting?!

When you spend a lot of time around BI experts, it’s very easy to forget that we’re way ahead of the curve compared to the typical BI-using company — especially now that BI is easing its way determinedly into the mainstream. While we’re all busy making predictions about new waves of technology in 2009, many companies are only just now starting to consider implementing business intelligence on a wider scale. In case you doubt... [Read More...]

The Complete List of 2009 BI Predictions?

Here’s a compiled list of all the articles and blog posts I’ve seen so far that give business intelligence predictions for 2009, with summarized lists of the points. For more information, go to the articles concerned. I’ve also added a couple of business and industry trend overviews that mention business intelligence. I’m sure I’ve missed some others — please don’t hesitate to comment… 2009 Business... [Read More...]

Why Will 2009 be a Great Year for Business Intelligence?

or "Reasons To Be Cheerful if Your Job Involves BI" The Economy is Awful Around the world, governments have drastically slashed their growth estimates for 2009. And according to a recent IDC survey, more than half of us believe that the current economic crisis will last at least a year. Faced with all the mayhem, it’s not surprising that today’s New York Times Op-ed includes the phrase "Let’s not mince words:... [Read More...]

Time for Voice of the Customer?

Fern Halper of Hurwitz recently published a blog entry on some BI survey results, showing that: Perhaps surprisingly, over 30% were already using text analytics The highest usages were for “voice of customer” and “competitive intelligence”   Also of interest was the ranking of BI technologies in order of importance — Query and Reporting 1st, OLAP Data Cubes last. I believe there’s an opportunity there,... [Read More...]

Asking for Your Help: User Percentage Research?

Business intelligence standardization (which I define as “pragmatically reducing the number of overlapping tools in order to reduce costs and maximize the benefits of business intelligence”) seems to be on the rise, at least in my neck of the woods. Several large customers are looking for external validation of how many BI users they “should” have, and of what profiles (simple reporting, interactive reporting, ad-hoc reporting,... [Read More...]