Five BI Predictions for 2009 and Beyond

In this interesting article Gartner reveals its 5 predictions for 2009.

1. Through [to] 2012, more than 35 per cent of the top 5,000 global companies will regularly fail to make insightful decisions about significant changes in their business and markets
2. By 2012, business units will control at least 40 per cent of the total budget for BI
3. By 2010, 20 percent of organisations will have an industry-specific analytic application delivered via software as a service (SaaS) as a standard component of their BI portfolio
4. In 2009, collaborative decision making will emerge as a new product category that combines social software with BI platform capabilities
5. By 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through course-grained application mashups

This all goes with our strategy to deliver high quality business analytics over web interfaces. This method provides a number of advantages for our customers:

(1) Updates are immediate and without IT overhead,
(2) Can customise interfaces and white-label look and feel to a customers needs,
(3) Provide the customer with extra computing power through future partners.

The first point is worrying for business in general though. When 35% of all companies will still not be making any use of their data assets it means that they will become more uncompetitive over time.

If you are interested in any of the issues raised ring us for more information and advice.