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Report:Build An Agile BI Organization

Organization: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Earlier-generation business intelligence (BI) support centers — organized along the same lines as support centers for all other enterprise software — fall short when it comes to taking...

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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: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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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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Report:BI Service Provider Short-Listing Tool

Firms should use the Forrester BI Service Provider Short-Listing Tool to input details about geographic scope, technology needs, and type of third-party support (i.e., consulting versus...

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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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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: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:Mobile Tablet PCs, Not Phones, Will Create Critical Mass For Enterprise BI 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:What Does R Integration Really Mean For BI Platforms?

I just received yet another call from a reporter asking me to comment on yet another BI vendor announcing R integration. All leading BI vendors are embedding/integrating with R these days, so I was...

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Blog:Is SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Worth The Wait?

SAP BusinessObjects (BO) 4.0 suite is here. It’s been in the ramp-up phase since last fall; according to our sources, SAP plans to announce its general availability sometime in May,...

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Blog:Mobile BI And Cloud BI Evaluation Criteria

Mobile BI and cloud BI are among the top trends that we track in the industry. Our upcoming Enterprise BI Platforms Wave™ will dedicate a significant portion of vendor evaluation on these two...

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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:Data Discovery And Exploration - IBM Acquires Vivisimo

Today IBM announced its plans to acquire Vivisimo - an enterprise search vendor with big data capabilities. Our research shows that only 1% to 5% of all enterprise data is in a structured, modeled...

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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: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:Agile Business Intelligence Solution Centers Are More Than Just Competency Centers

By Boris Evelson and Rob Karel Our latest BI solution center (BISC, which in our definition is more than a BICC/BI COE) report is now live on the Forrester website. Here’s a brief summary....

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Blog:What Is ADV And Why Do We Need It?

As one of the industry-renowned data visualization experts Edward Tufte once said, “The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich...

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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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Report:Forrester's Business Intelligence DBMS Effort Estimation Model

This diagnostic tool is designed to help you understand the potential long-term cost-of-ownership savings that your organization can realize from the use of specialized business intelligence database...

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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:“Just Right” Customer Analytics - update

Why, oh, why is it that every time I hear about a BI project from an IT person, or from a business stakeholder describing how IT delivered it, with few exceptions, these are the stories plagued with...

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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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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: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...