Here are some of the predictions for Business intelligence world by some experts for 2007. What do you think? Which ones of these will define the 2007's importance in the BI journey?
* There will be an increase in the deployment of BI systems intended for performance management. There will also be a corresponding increase in training related to change management associated with performance-based activity, including preparing the organization to take action based on established performance goals that can be directly tied to BI applications.
* Look for more focus on product data integration as part of Master Data Management (MDM) programs, in addition to continued growth in the Customer Data Integration (CDI) market. As online retailing models change to incorporate federated partnerships (e.g., storefront models such as the ones provided by eBay, Amazon and Yahoo), the need to provide accurate and consistent catalog data will spur the growth of Product Information Management programs.
* Companies will recognize the importance of information governance. Lobbying activities intended to loosen some of the regulatory constraints imposed by recent legislation may introduce some uncertainty in deploying information governance activities. But those organizations that establish information governance programs will be able to more effectively correlate competitive advantage to effective information management methods and controls.
* The 'early majority' of customers will choose their strategic BI supplier and eject other pockets of BI usage. They will establish BI Competence Centers or Centers of Excellence to drive BI initiatives featuring their supplier of choice. Suppliers will look to develop their new business sales in midsized enterprises with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and real-time BI offerings.
* Suppliers will consolidate. Microsoft, SAP and Oracle will increase competitive pressures on best-of-breed suppliers by leveraging their enterprise data management positions and offering ubiquitous access to heterogeneous data sources and other vendors' BI cubes.
* BI will merge with CPM and customer relationship management (CRM) and will have a greater business process component. BI will incorporate structured and unstructured content in a new category: "Intelligent Content." This convergence of technologies and data will be facilitated by enterprise BI search. Greater access to data will drive collaborative BI applications such as online financial investment decision-making and budgeting.
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