BI Megatrends: IntelligentEnterprise Special Issue
Intelligent Enterprise has just relesed the 7th annual BI Megatrends special isssue. It starts with the current state of BI product innovations:
- Open-source vendors like Pentaho and Jaspersoft are making their presences felt.
- Actuate provides BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting and Tools), a report-authoring tool, based on the open-source development environment Eclipse.
- Endeca Technologies, which offers a guided search, navigation and analysis platform, threatens to redefine the meaning of BI by concentrating on the user experience instead of the data.
- Celequest is breaking new ground by delivering real-time agent technology with analytical capability, and recently, offering an all-in-one BI appliance.
- Through interactive visualization and data manipulation, Spotfire is vastly expanding what users can do with analytics.
- SAP NetWeaver architecture encourages third parties to add value to the SAP environment by developing hybrid, operational/analytical applications as combinations of services.
- Microsoft is tightening BI and Reporting Services integration with its SQL Server and Analysis Services. As its PerformancePoint plans unfold, the company will incorporate the proven capabilities found in the acquired ProClarity tools.
Megatrend Categories...
Where are the strongest signs of a shift? Factors influencing BI's future fall into three categories, with important subjects as part of each of them:
- New capabilities, including search and guided navigation, master data management, semantics and operational BI;
- Technology architecture changes, including service oriented architecture, Web 2.0, Web services, emerging standards, Ajax and intelligent, real-time agents; and
- External (to the BI industry) drivers, such as open source, business externalization and Moore's Law.
Full report from Intelligent Enterprise.