Is BI a turn-key thing?

Oh my, this was interesting. The article essentially points out the promise of BI isn't easy to capture.



Many Companies Plan To Increase BI Spending - Management Technology News by InformationWeek

Ah-hah. The beginning of my search about Web 2.0 and BI

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Dashboard: Web 2.0's Effect on Business Intelligence

I don't have an answer for this ...

Where are the Web 2.0 versions of all our BI tools?

BI without the Data Warehousing

I was intrigued: SSIS Junkie : Service Orientation in Oil and Gas (Part 2) - Service Oriented Business Intelligence (SoBI).

Gartner's BI Platform Quadrant for Q1 2007

Gartner's magic quadrants are always interesting, even if you don't believe them. The most recent BI quadrant puts Micro$oft and Qliktech closing in a bit more on industry leaders Cognos et cetera. Read it here: Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07.

Analyses in-memory ...

QlikTech has an interesting approach to dashboarding. It's in Version 7 and has the typical features: alerts, support for HTML, and so on). But it's the approach to OLAP ... or it's non-approach to OLAP ... that intrigues me. You see, QlikView runs in memory and not on OLAP. And it can be used with operational data without the need for pre-aggregation ... something BI tools usually require. So it parses the input data and extracts metadata that describes relationships between those various data elements. The bottom line is that performance is better; you don't have pre-defined dimensions or hierarchies; you don't have to ask IT to rebuild your OLAP cube when you want to run a query that requires a design change; and you can perform drill-downs in a way that would be otherwise too "expensive" in processing terms. Obviously, it means that you gotta have a lot of memory, but that's pretty cheap these days.

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Ah, the promise of better collaboration between Design and Development

If Expression Studio is as good as it looks, it might very well resolve an issue that this web designer runs into when working with engineers. The design is never implemented exactly as was intended, unless I do the web development and let the engineers hook-up the backend. Not very many programmers are also good designers. It happens, just not that often.

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