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Blog:Make data confidence index part of your BI architecture

I often see two ends of the extreme when I talk to clients who are trying to deal with data confidence challenges. One group typically sees it as a problem that IT has to address, while business...

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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: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: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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Tool:Yearly Trend In The Number Of Forrester BI And BI-Related Inquiries

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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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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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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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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: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: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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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: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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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: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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Tool:BI Adoption Trends From 2008 To 2009

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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: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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Report:Expand Your Digital Horizon With Big Data

At extreme scale, traditional data management and business intelligence (BI) become impractical, and your business does not get what it demands — more insight to drive greater business...

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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: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: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...

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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:What Do You Do If A BI Vendor Offers You A "Discount" Without Published List Prices?

By Boris Evelson I get this request almost on a weekly basis: "Boris, my BI vendor is offering me the following discount, is it a good deal or not?" The first question is what are you comparing it...

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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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