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« A Lot of Unstructured Data Out There | Main | The 10 Largest Databases in the World » November 26, 2007Looking Back at BI -- From the Year 2018
Will 2008 be the year that the long-fragmented BI market finally starts to congeal? Ten years from now, will mega-BI platforms be as commonplace as mega-ERP systems? Is this a good thing? Noted BI analyst William McKnight says this is exactly what is happening. With the wave of acquisitions that swept the BI world over the past year, companies may finally start to rally around popular solutions. As he notes in a recent blog post: "I think the business books in 2018 will look favorably on the recent moves of SAP, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle. The signal that BI had evolved to this point in maturity was when Oracle bought Hyperion." Don't expect an immediate market makeover, however. "I don’t expect the recent acquisitions to impact clients for quite some time," William says. He advises companies to start looking at the emerging suite solutions out there -- "to look ahead and figure out who they want to be in their approach to the market – a mega-vendor purchaser with a relationship and a commensurate built-in culture, or a company who values independence and will incubate their own culture. I believe 2008 will start to bring back the notion a 'primary' vendor." Posted by joemckendrick in Business Intelligence | Digg This | Add to del.icio.us Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: |
