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Report:Updated 2012: BI Service Provider Short-Listing Tool

Create a shortlist using our tool to find the right set of providers based on your technology requirements, industry, project size, and geographic scope.Eliminate or add partners based on factors...

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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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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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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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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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Blog:How Do You Sell BI To The Business Executives?

Whoa! Hold your horses. If this is indeed a key challenge that you’ve tried to address in the past without much success, consider switching jobs. This is not a joke. Business intelligence (BI)...

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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:Top 10 BI Predictions For 2013 And Beyond

It’s that time of year again, when everyone starts asking for the BI predictions for next year. Good news: We did a pretty good job on the last year’s predictions, and so there’re...

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Client Inquiry:Can You Provide Some Market Information On Antivia (BusinessObjects)?

We are looking to utilize and further promote the SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius software currently in use by looking to: 1) deploy interactive "drillable" to lowest-level-detail Xcelsius dashboards to...

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

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Tool:BI Adoption Trends From 2008 To 2009

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Report:BI On BI: How To Manage The Performance Of BI Initiatives

Performance Management: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Business intelligence (BI) is often defined as processes and technologies to manage business performance, with the ultimate goal of making more informed decisions based on real data, not hunches. But...

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Blog:Results Of Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010

As I was doing research for our Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010, I couldn’t help but remember a dear old friend of mine, who was/is one of the...

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Blog:Continuation Of The BI Software Plus Services Convergence Trend

As we predicted more than three years ago, BI software and services are converging. Today, Deloitte announced its acquisition of the assets of the BI SaaS vendor Oco.  This is a great...

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Blog:COTS Vs. Home-Grown BI Apps

Wanted to run the following two questions and my answers by the community: Q. What is the average age of reporting applications at large enterprises? A. Reporting apps typically involve source data...

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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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Report:Forrester's Data Management Reference Architecture

Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value

The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...

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Blog:Key Questions To Ask Yourself Before Embarking On A Big Data Journey

Do you think you are ready to tackle Big Data because you are pushing the limits of your data Volume, Velocity, Variety and Variability? Take a deep breath (and maybe a cold shower) before you...

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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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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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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:Update 2011: Forrester's BI Maturity Assessment Tool

Forrester recommends using this business intelligence (BI) maturity assessment tool at the beginning of any new strategic BI initiative to help you better understand your current state and strategic...

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Blog:BI on BI Or How BI Pros Must Eat Their Own Dog Food

  BI professionals spend a significant portion of their time trying to instill the discipline of datadriven performance management into their business partners. However, isn’t there...

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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...