The Complete Business Intelligence ‘09 Predictions List

Timo Elliott has done a nice job of compiling the definitive list of business intelligence predictions for the year. I’m pretty sure that Ken’s What’s in Store for Business Intelligence post was the first of the season, but as you can see from Timo’s post, there were many more to come. What’s interesting to me is that most of these business intelligence predictions seem to be based on expert opinion (dare I say gut feel?) more than hard data. Shawn Rogers did post a twtpoll and I’m happy to say that SaaS business intelligence is way out in front, but this may have to do with the fact that many people on Twitter are also cloud-computing converts (dare I say mavens?).

Here are some of the SaaS-specific business intelligence predictions from Timo’s summary:

• Cloud computing will cause a shift in the BI balance of power from IT to business users
• Software as a Service (SaaS) picks up in the midmarket
• BI moves into the cloud
• By 2010, 20% of organizations will have an industry-specific analytic application delivered via SaaS as a standard component of their BI portfolio
• Cloud computing will impact decision management
• SaaS Goes Upmarket
• The IT industry’s expansion to “the cloud” will accelerate

Be sure to read the entire post here.

posted by Darren Cunningham at 6:58 am

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Neil Raden

Posted on 8th January, 2009

Clearly, a lot of these “predictions” are flavored by self-interest. Especially with respect to BI, the “users” could care less about the cloud. They need relevance, understanding and integration.

Some of these predictions are plausible only because they are so vague. Wayne’s for example - I can’t disagree with any of them, by they are constrained by words like “emerge” for example.

In my blog http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2008/12/a_prediction_fo.html#more which Timo didn’t pick up, I was pretty clear about these things. I described a “surround” strategy that is indifferent to clouds or xaaS. The lack of this semantic rationalization holds everything else back.

-NR