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I attended the IDC BI Roadshow today in Prague, in the Czech Republic. Tom Vavra, the IDC research director for the CEMA region, started off the day with a presentation entitled \u201cThe Next Wave of Business Intelligence\u201d. He was under unusual pressure, because (1) his family was in the room, and it was the first time they\u2019d seen him speak, and (2) part of the room fell on another IDC employee in the middle of his speech (he literally \u201cbrought the house down\u201d).<\/p>\n
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The presentation was full of interesting BI data nuggets, including:<\/p>\n
Tom showed how far we still have to go in using BI to actually support decision-making. When asked, business people cited the following, in order of importance:<\/p>\n
The top two pain points of making decisions will be familiar to anybody who has used or implemented BI systems:<\/p>\n
But further down the list are some indications of areas where BI has to mature to become true DSS or decision-support systems (as the industry was known when I first joined it twenty years ago).<\/p>\n
Technology used for decisions \u2013 email attachments, phone conversations, in-person meetings, emailing links to content centrally, team workspaces, shared applications<\/p>\n
Tom went on to cover changes to the BI landscape. The first is BI consolidation, with the WW BI tools revenue share of the top 10 vendors rising inexorably every year from 2003 (~58%) to 2009 (~74%). The second is the rise of on-demand or software-as-a-service BI, predicted to rise at 22.4% CAGR 2008-2013, compared to the general business analytics software market of \u201conly\u201d 7.2%<\/p>\n
Next up was Dai Clegg<\/a>, the EMEA Marketing Director for Netezza<\/a>, who presented the benefits of their data warehouse appliance product:<\/p>\n \u201cWe do one thing, and hopefully we do it very well\u2026 we invented it, we deliver it, and we mean it: i\u2019t\u2019s a piece of equipment that you can just plug in, and it does the job\u201d (Netezza\u2019s 400 employees and $200M-growing-at-45% revenues are in the process of being acquired by IBM)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Dai did a good job of vaunting the benefits of the solution (but once you\u2019ve said \u201cit uses hardware\/parallel processing\/memory technology to go faster\u201d there\u2019s not necessarily that much to say of interest to a general BI audience).<\/p>\n Thirty minutes into the 25-minute slot, Kamil Matuska, the DW manager of T-Mobile in the Czech Republic was invited up to explain how his team had used the product. He uses a relational data warehouse with SAP BusinessObjects, and the Netezza appliance is currently operated in parallel, and has resulted in dramatic performance increases (operational reporting from several hours down to seconds). He hopes to be able to operate the data warehouse directly on the Netezza appliance within the coming year.<\/p>\n I liked this, from the Netezza brochure: \u201cprocedure for deploying a Netezza\u201d (there\u2019s not enough humor in enterprise applications!)<\/p>\n After the break, I gave my vendor-neutral Clear Intelligence future presentation<\/p>\n After my presentation, Evgeny Velesevich, an ex-Cognos employee, now in charge of sales in the CEE for IBM, talked about the IBM sales analytics package.<\/p>\n The presentation was a little heavy on sales information, but he did make the point that most organizations believe that they have to \u201cbuild their own\u201d, that they are uniquely qualified to put a BI solution together \u2013 which is a bit like building your own car: it might have been necessary a hundred years ago, but now most of us prefer to buy our cars as a complete package, because other people can do it much better than we could ever hope to be.<\/p>\n The next IDC CEMA BI Roadshow session I\u2019ll be presenting at is in Moscow, on November 18th<\/a> and then Athens, on November 19th<\/a> (I think).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recap of the IDC BI Roadshow session in Prague, the Czech Republic, including some interesting BI data nuggets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,160,161,198,204,213,324,509,585,759,911],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-analytics","tag-bi","tag-bi-20","tag-business-analytics","tag-business-intelligence","tag-businessobjects","tag-dashboards","tag-future","tag-ibm","tag-netezza","tag-sap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3a6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20589,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions\/20589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_1203\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1203.jpg?resize=150%2C178&ssl=1\" "\\"IMG_1203\\"")
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