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Report:It's The Dawning Of The Age Of BI DBMS

Complement Your RDBMS-Based BI With More Agile DBMS Technologies

We know how to address the key business intelligence (BI) challenges of the past 20 years, such as stability, robustness, and rich functionality. Agility and flexibility challenges now represent BI's...

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Report:Trends 2011 And Beyond: Business Intelligence

Agility Will Shape Business Intelligence For The Next Decade

Forrester continues to see ever-increasing levels of interest in and adoption of business intelligence (BI) platforms, applications, and processes. But while BI maturity in enterprises continues to...

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Blog:To Be (To Cloud) Or Not To Be (Not To Cloud) BI

My colleagues and I have just completed yet another engagement with a large client — one of dozens recently — who was facing a to be or not to be decision: whether to move its BI platform...

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Report:Make Customer-Facing BI Agile

Agile Methods Improve Customer Intelligence

Customer Intelligence (CI) is a subset of business intelligence (BI); CI and BI professionals share similar struggles, particularly when it comes to implementing applications that produce valuable,...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business Intelligence (BI), Q3 2010

Actuate BIRT Leads, With Jaspersoft Enterprise, SpagoBI, Pentaho Enterprise, And Pentaho Community Close Behind

Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open...

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Blog:BI Vendors Have To Eat Their Own Dog Food

Would you trust a car salesman who’s not driving the type of car he’s trying to sell you? Would you trust a nutritionist or a dietitian who’s not in a good shape? Probably not....

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Report:Trends In Business Intelligence Organizational Structures

This set of data charts presents the results of the May 2011 Global Business Intelligence Organization Online Survey.

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Blog:Business And IT Alignment For BI - Fact Or Fiction?

By Boris Evelson My friend and highly respected colleague, Wayne Eckerson from TDWI, posted a great article called “Purple BI People”. In the article he described some of the best...

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Report:BI Maturity In The Enterprise: 2012 Update

These data charts present the findings of the Q2 2012 Global BI Maturity Online Survey.

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Report:Decide When To Buy, Build, Or Outsource BI

Tools And Technology: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Building custom business intelligence (BI) solutions is time-consuming and inflexible; therefore, application development and delivery (AD&D) pros heading BI projects should move away from a...

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Blog:Use A Four-Step Approach To Select The Right BI Services Provider

BI projects are never short, and, alas, many of them don't end since a fast-paced business environment often introduces new requirements, enhancements, and updates before you're even done...

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Blog:Best practices for using spreadsheets as BI tools

By Boris Evelson We all know that the war of fighting the proliferation of spreadsheets (as BI or as any other applications) in enterprises has been fought and lost. Gone are the days when BI and...

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Blog:Does The Good Old 80/20 Rule Work For Estimating BI Costs?

I get tons of questions about "how much it costs to develop an analytical application." Alas, as most of us unfortunately know, the only real answer to that question is “it depends.” It...

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Report:Establish Ongoing Processes To Assess Your Business Intelligence Maturity

Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...

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Blog:BI Partnership Ecosystem - "Gone With The Wind"

By Boris Evelson I have long resisted and will continue to resist for the foreseeable future any notions that the BI market is commoditizing. A single simple look at the BI maturity in enterprises...

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Blog:Not All In-Memory Analytics Tools Are Created Equal

I get many questions from clients interested in evaluating different in-memory technologies. My first advice is not to mix apples and oranges and clearly understand the differences between in-memory...

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Blog:Trends 2011 And Beyond: Business Intelligence

Forrester continues to see ever-increasing levels of interest in and adoption of business intelligence (BI) platforms, applications, and processes. But while BI maturity in enterprises continues to...

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Blog:Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask About BI

How does an enterprise — especially a large, global one with multiple product lines and multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications — make sense of operations, logistics, and...

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Blog:A Bit Of BI Humor

We all work very hard to make our BI initiatives, programs, platforms, applications, and tools very successful. We need a break. And what better way to relax than to joke about what we do? So... as...

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Blog:Craft Your Future State BI Reference Architecture

In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...

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Blog:Decision Management, Possibly The Last Frontier In BI

Just read an excellent article on the subject by Tom Davenport. We at Forrester Research indeed see the same trend, where more advanced enterprises are starting to venture into combining reporting...

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Client Inquiry:What Are The Best Practices For Creating An Enterprise Reporting Policy?

What are the best practices for creating an enterprise reporting policy, and when should specific reporting tools and applications be used?

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Blog:Do You Have BI On BI?

BI is used to build, report, and analyze business performance metrics and indicators. What about measuring the performance of BI itself? How do you know if you have a high-performing, widely used BI...

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Blog:Big Data Survey

Forrester is in the middle of a major research effort on various Big Data-related topics. As part of this research, we’ll be kicking off a client survey shortly. I’d like to...

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Blog:It's The Dawning Of The Age Of BI DBMS

Over the years we’ve learned how to address the key business intelligence (BI) challenges of the past 20 years, such as stability, robustness, and rich functionality. Agility and...