Briefs

Jeff Kelly, 07 Jan 2009 | SearchDataManagement.com

Wayne Eckerson, Director of research and services for The Data Warehousing Institute.

• Analytic database platforms go mainstream.
• Open source BI gets evaluated.
• Packaged analytic applications gain traction.
• Software as a Service (SaaS) picks up in the midmarket.
• Next-generation dashboards emerge.
• Analytical literacy improves.
• More analytical sandboxes come to the fore.
• BI goes green.
• Advanced visualization corrals BI.
• Event-driven analytic platforms hit the scene.

James G. Kobielus
Senior analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research covering BI and data warehousing.

• BI moves into the cloud.
• BI adopting Web 2.0 development paradigm.
• BI growing more federated.
• BI evolving into advanced analytic applications.

• By 2012, business units will control at least 40% of the total budget for BI.
• By 2010, 20% of organizations will have an industry-specific analytic application delivered via SaaS as a standard component of their BI portfolio.
• In 2009, collaborative decision making will emerge as a new product category that combines social software with BI platform capabilities.
• By 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through large-grained application mashups.