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Bridging the IT and Business Gap

This isn't a new topic for any of us but it continues to be one worth discussing. In the July 15th issue of CIO Magazine You can find an insert from IDC Sponsored by Oracle titled Bridging the IT and Business Needs Gap by Dan Vesset.

A couple interesting notes from the article:
In 2004 the BI Tools market growth was better than expected 9.5% reaching $4.25 billion. IDC forecasts for 05 - 09 compound annual growth rate of 6%.

IDC research also points out an interesting desparity in spending. For every dollar spent on transaction processing apps, data capture and getting informnation into databases only $0.25 is spent getting data out for analytics. No thats a real problem.

If you haven't checked out the web seminar hosted by myself and Claudia Imhoff titled Building a Total View of Your Customer you should. Claudia along with Daniel Mathieux of AAA make some great points about how important it is to bridge this gap.

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