{"id":1862,"date":"2011-01-31T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2011-01-31T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T15:00:49","slug":"business-intelligence-converging-trends-mean-rapid-change-for-bi-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/business-intelligence-converging-trends-mean-rapid-change-for-bi-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Intelligence: Converging Trends Mean Rapid Change for BI Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a title=\"Self-Service Business Intelligence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=1848\" target=\"_blank\">post last week<\/a> we saw that Business Intelligence is becoming easier. \u00a0 Easy-to-Use consumer-style interfaces are putting sophisticated data analysis tools into the hands of a greater range of users. \u00a0Tools that once required extensive support in order to configure and customize and more &#8220;self service&#8221; in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Other trends to follow in the area of Business Intelligence and Analytics as described by <a title=\"Gartner trends on BI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/it\/page.jsp?id=1513714\" target=\"_blank\">Gartner <\/a>include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Within two years, a third of BI users will access business analytics using handheld devices<\/li>\n<li>Within two years, 15 percent of BI uses will include data from social media and collaboration in the analysis<\/li>\n<li>Within three years, 30 percent of BI applications will be using fast in-memory computations for improved speed and scalability<\/li>\n<li>Within three years, 30 percent of BI applications will have predictive and forecasting capabilities<\/li>\n<li>Within three years, 40 percent of BI spending will be on system integrators, not on the software itself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"James Kobelius on Business Analytics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/software\/bi\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000253&amp;cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All\" target=\"_blank\">James Kobelius from Forrester Research<\/a> added his take on on how business intelligence and analytics is changing. \u00a0Not too much new, but it is a good summary of where this market segment is going.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Self-service<\/strong>. \u00a0As we&#8217;ve covered before, as mentioned above.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Real-time Analytics<\/strong>. \u00a0In-memory processing will speed up and make BI more interactive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social Analytics<\/strong>. \u00a0Integration of Social Media data into Business Intelligence<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cloud Analytics<\/strong>. \u00a0Small businesses will find SaaS BI more affordable, increasing acceptance. \u00a0Other companies will simply move to SaaS BI as the general trend towards the Cloud picks up momentum.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scalable Analytics<\/strong>. \u00a0Tools like Hadoop will 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