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January 31, 2007

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit UK

I thought I'd do a bit of a recap on the event so far. Its my first visit to London so everything here is a bit new. I can saw however that there is a certain element of comfort in that I have gotten to see many of my friends at the event. The attendance is great over 600+ and the content is reasonably solid as well. I say reasonably only because they are forced to span the advanced to the elementary in many of the talks so its difficult to keep all of us happy all the time.

Andreas Bitterer kicked things off yesterday and shared his latest research: Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07. The leaders quadrant continues to contain Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, Oracle and SAS. New comer to the report is Spotfire who was included due to it's "innovative analysis capabilities and positioning".

Microsoft's Alex Payne spoke in a session yesterday to a standing room only audience as he presented the importance of pervasive business intelligence. An interesting point was discussed during the session concerning pricing. The bottom line being that low cost or "cheap pricing" doesn't always mean that a product isn't enterprise quality or feature rich. Alex drove the point home by unveiling the new pricing options available and it caused a few gasps in the room. In short, enterprise ready business intelligence at extremely aggressive pricing has officially arrived.

Several people left the room in a rush after the slide went up, its possible not everyone in the space is pleased with the new pricing?

I hope to have more on the Microsoft piece today.

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April 4, 2006

How does your Digital Business Architecture look?

Andrew Bartels Vice President at Forrester Research gave all of us a Glimpse into the next Tech Boom. Andrew illustrated how Digital Business Architecture (DBA) will fuel the growth in tech investment in 2008 -2016. Here are just a few of the business issues DBA will address:

• Making large legacy systems more flexible
• Improving process effectiveness and performance management
• Simplifying regulatory compliance
• Connecting with distributed customers
• Connecting with distributed suppliers
• Connecting with distributed workforce
• Connecting with distributed assets
• Supporting collaborative processes

The content here is excellent, if you are looking for a technology conference that will plug you in on many levels this show is a good bet. Over 1000 attendees, nice venue: Mandalay Bay in Vegas, excellent speakers etc. If you aren't here be sure to pencil it in for next year.

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More from Forrester's IT Forum: Gigaworld

I got to review a great report today written by Forrester Analyst Keith Gile and team. Title "TheForrester Wave: BI Reporting and Analysis Platforms, Q1 2006" It's an interesting look at the state and direction for Analytic Reporting and Enterprise Reporting. Forrester evaluated 10 leading business intelligence (BI), database, and application vendors across 92 criteria and found Business Objects has established early BI platform leadership, followed by Cognos. Hyperion, MicroStrategy, and SAS offer strong enterprise analytics, while Actuate and Information Builders are strong in enterprise reporting and scalability. Microsoft's latest release offers tighter integration with Microsoft Office, while Oracle and SAP emphasize integration with their respective enterprise applications over deeper reporting functionality.

The report is available at the Forrester site.

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