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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise BI Platforms, Q4 '10

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Report:The Future Of BI

Vision: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Demands by users of business intelligence (BI) applications to "just get it done" are turning typical BI relationships, such as business/IT alignment and the roles that traditional and...

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Blog:Self-Service BI

Traditional BI approaches and technologies — even when using the latest technology, best practices, and architectures — almost always have a serious side effect: a constant backlog of BI...

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Blog:Key Findings From Forrester's Latest Enterprise BI Maturity Survey (2010 Update)

Here's what the latest numbers from Forrester's 2010 enterprise BI maturity survey show. Organizations that use BI show increased (+5.7% from 2009) levels of maturity. However,...

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Client Inquiry:What IT Professional Skills Are Required For Success With BI And Big Data?

From a people perspective, what skills and character traits are required by IT professionals to be successful with big data/business intelligence (BI) initiatives? How would you assess these during a...

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Report:Six Steps To Negotiating A Better BI Deal

Use Forrester's Approach To Help You Get More For Your Money

Many business intelligence (BI) vendors do not publish list prices. Some do not even provide list prices under NDA to their customers and prospects. Plus, BI pricing and licensing models differ...

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Blog:Proposed Themes For BI Trends 2011 Research Document

Forrester's recent report on Top 15 Technologies To Watch In 2011 once again proved that BI is front and center on everyone's agendas. We indeed continue to see unrelenting interest and...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010

IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, and Oracle Lead, With Information Builders, SAS, Microsoft, and MicroStrategy Close Behind

In Forrester's 145-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we found that IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, Oracle, Information Builders , SAS, Microsoft, and...

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Blog:Ways To Address BI Skills Shortage

Whether you are just starting on your BI journey or are continuing to improve on past successes, a shortage of skilled and experienced BI resources is going to be one of your top challenges. You are...

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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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Tool:BI Adoption Trends From 2008 To 2009

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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:Oracle OBIEE 11g Launch: "We are back!"

Whoever said BI market is commoditizing, consolidating and getting very mature? Nothing can be farther from the truth. On the buy side, Forrester still sees tons of less-than-successful BI...

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Blog:What SQL Cannot Do

I recently asked my Twitter followers if they had good examples of queries, business questions that SQL can't do. It turns out a better question is "what SQL can't do easily", so I thought...

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Blog:What Do BI Vendors Mean When They Say They Integrate With Hadoop

There's certainly a lot of hype out there about big data. As I previously wrote, some of it is indeed hype, but there are still many legitimate big data cases - I saw a great...

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Tool:Features Of Selected In-Memory Index Vendors

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Blog:RFQ For BI Software Pricing Research

On my Q3 research agenda is a document reviewing typical BI software pricing configurations. Unfortunately, I find that just asking vendors whether they have this or that pricing policy (by...

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Blog:Oracle Leapfrogs BI Competitors By Acquiring Endeca

This is a very smart move by Oracle. Until the Siebel and Hyperion acquisitions, Oracle was not a leader in the BI and analytics space. Those acquisitions put them squarely in the top three together...

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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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Blog:BI In Russia And Israel

I recently had both the privilege and pleasure to do a deep dive into the cold and warm BI waters in Russia and Israel. Cold - because some of my experiences were sobering. Warm - because the...

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Blog:To BI Or Not To BI — That Is The Question For SAS

First of all, congratulations, SAS AR team, for one of the most efficiently and effectively run events. SAS needs to make up its mind whether it wants to be in the BI game or not. Despite what...

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Report:A Practical How-To Approach To Mobile BI

Mobile Tablet PCs, Not Phones, Will Create Critical Mass For Enterprise Adoption

Mobile devices and mobile Internet are everywhere. Over the past few years, Forrester has tracked continuously increasing levels of adoption and maturity for mobile business applications, but not so...

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Blog:To BW Or Not To BW - 2011 Update

I get lots of questions from clients on whether they should consider (or continue to rely on) SAP BW for their data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) platform, tools, and...

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Blog:Join Me For A BI Strategy Workshop In Cambridge, Mass., On October 19, 2010

Business intelligence (BI) continues to be front and center on the agendas of businesses of all sizes and in all industries and geographies. Ever-increasing data volumes, complexity of global...

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Client Inquiry:What Are Best Practices For Scorecard Development?

We are trying to develop a comprehensive executive-level scorecard for our administration area or operations/service areas, not IT. We are looking for best practices to help us develop the format or...