SaaS and Business Intelligence are CIO Priorities

As the role of the Chief Information Officer evolves to become the Chief Intelligence Officer (or as the IT Exec track is called at Dreamforce Europe this week, Chief Innovation Officer), InformationWeek has published 8 Trends in IT that CIOs Can’t Ignore.

According to Accenture’s Kishore Swaminathan, the consulting firm’s chief scientist,they are:

1. Cloud Computing
2. Light Systems (another name for mashups I believe)
3. Business Intelligence (due to “an increasing demand for actionable corporate data”)
4. The Always-Connected User (which can be very dangerous while driving on the 101 and not exactly family friendly)
5. Social Networking
6. Dramatic Growth in User Generated Content
7. The Forever Beta Approach to Software (there goes the saying, “ship happens!”)
8. Sustainability (aka Green Computing (if it can avoid the backlash that Seth Godin predicts for Green Marketing I guess)

Sounds like there’s a need for easy to learn and use SaaS business intelligence solutions that can easily mash-up with other applications, allow you to easily collaborate and share information with your colleagues, and consume very little energy from IT.

Here’s a Podcast from the Boulder BI Brain Trust that talks about just such an idea…

posted by Darren Cunningham at 12:52 pm

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