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« Best Practices for Turning Useless Data into Actionable Information | Main | Enter Data Warehousing 2.0 » December 11, 2007Top 10 BI Trends to Watch - 2008
I just published my list of the "Top 10 Data Management Trends to Watch" for the upcoming year in Database Trends, and thought I would share them with you here. 1 - More industry consolidation, acquisitions. The year 2007 saw a number of acquisitions and mergers among prominent vendors, including IBM’s announced acquisition of Cognos, SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects and Oracle’s acquisition of Hyperion. Expect more of the same in 2008. 2 - Finally, BI with enterprise reach will become more of a reality. “Democratic” BI - accessible to executives and employees throughout the organization, rather than being limited to analysts - has long been an unfulfilled pipe dream within the industry. However, in 2008, this vision may finally begin to be realized. 3 - Business intelligence moves toward performance management and complex analytics. As BI moves out to the masses, there will be increased scrutiny and leveraging of the metrics that drive the business itself. 4 - Business intelligence and analytics will move to real time. In 2007, the industry witnessed a dramatic shift away from historical data analysis to the embracing of real-time analytics. New initiatives such as SOA are also facilitating this movement to real-time BI. 5 - SOA and integration will grow as enterprise IT activities. The need for speed of delivery has put SOA front and center on everyone's mind. 6 - Mashups and Web 2.0 will rise within enterprise walls. Due to the rapid proliferation of consumer-facing mashup applications, the demand for customized, collaborative-oriented applications is making its way into the enterprise. 7 - More companies will embrace software- as-a-service (SaaS). Many observers consider the SaaS phenomenon as a vital piece of Web 2.0. 8 - Managing more with less, and aligning more with the business. Managing more with less is a trend that never goes out of style, and this will especially be the case in 2008. 9 - More server and storage virtualization. Virtualization is hot for a number of reasons, and extends across a number of parts of the enterprise. Virtualization will also be increasingly used to manage the storage piece of the enterprise. 10 - Data and IT governance will become urgent requirements. Data governance has typically been limited to policies and enforcement, but the emphasis will broaden over the coming year, shaping IT infrastructures. Posted by joemckendrick in Data Management | Digg This | Add to del.icio.us Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: |
