{"id":11905,"date":"2007-09-20T00:12:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T23:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-09-20T00:12:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T23:12:22","slug":"microsoft_launches_impressive_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/microsoft_launches_impressive_.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Launches Impressive New Suite… of BI Cliches?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Microsoft launched PerformancePoint Server 2007 using an impressively dense array of well-worn BI clichés, presumably confident that many of their potential purchasers had never heard any of them before. <\/p>\n

Here’s the ComputerWorld article<\/a> on the launch. If any other BI vendor had said these things, would they have printed it? <\/p>\n

Cliché #1: Information vs. insight<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Customers have spent hundred of billions of dollars over the past 15 years for ERP, supply chain management [and] sales force automation,” said <\/em>Jeff Raikes<\/em><\/a>, president of Microsoft’s business division. “But how can that be channeled to deliver better insight?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Um… maybe business intelligence, an industry that’s been around for almost 20 years?<\/p>\n

Cliché #2: Information is only available to the few<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 “BI is really only used by 10% or fewer information workers today.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Didn’t he get the memo?, 15%<\/u> is the standard, unverifiable, out-of-thin-air number that everybody quotes. And you’re supposed to say “it is estimated that…”<\/p>\n

Cliché #3: You have to be an expert<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Raikes compared the state of business intelligence today to the status of word processing 20 years ago, when only a select few workers had access to the software. Today, he said, only a company’s “high priests of data” have access to BI and analysis tools.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Since today’s biggest BI deployments have over 100,000 users, that makes for a heck of a lot of high priests. And isn’t accessing standard reports part of BI? Microsoft have sold a LOT of Crystal Reports since 1993 … <\/p>\n

Cliché #4: Democratizing information<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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“Our vision is to bring the powerful capability of BI to all information workers … to democratize access to critical business insight,” he added.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, at least we can agree on something. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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