Gartner Information Management Summit : Feb 22nd & 23rd

This is a re-post of a note from Gartner. I thought these were interesting trends. Make sure you attend the Summit to find out more!

As technology, market and management trends begin to transform BIIM and analytics, understanding and embracing these impending changes is critical in order to improve performance and your organization’s success. According to Gartner, there are four trends that BIIM and analytics leaders need to embrace, which are highlighted in this month’s e-newsletter. You can learn more at the upcoming Gartner Business Intelligence & Information Management Summit, 22 – 23 February, Sydney, Australia.

Four key BI predictions to help organizations plan for 2011 and beyond

1. By 2013, 33% of BI functionality will be consumed via handheld devices.
   
   Current adoption rates and the broad availability of mobile devices are promising to quickly generate a strong wave of mobile BI users. At first, mobile BI will consist largely of existing reports and dashboards ported to the mobile device. By 2012, organizations and vendors will develop mobile analytic applications for specific tasks or domains. Mobile BI will significantly expand the population of BI users to include a more mainstream audience and this opportunity will attract significant investment.
2. By 2014, 30% of analytic applications will use in-memory functions to add scale and computational speed.
   
   By 2014, 30% of analytic applications will use proactive, predictive and forecasting capabilities. The growing use of sophisticated analytic functions will accelerate the growth of the performance management and the analytic application market. Packaged applications will incorporate data and text mining, forecasting and regression, optimization, scoring and simulations using complex business rules and data modelling. As the speed-of-response and data volumes increase, organizations will look for columnar data repositories and in-memory online analytical processing that is faster and easier to architect.
3. By 2014, 40% of business analytics expenditure will go to system integrators, not software vendors.
   
   The growth of user-driven initiatives, external information sources and the integration of unstructured content make the traditional approach of buying products almost exclusively from software companies and system integrators increasingly risky and potentially uncompetitive. Buyers can now evaluate total packages and select a lead provider, often a service provider to deliver it.
4. By 2013, 15% of BI deployments will combine BI, collaboration and social software into decision-making environments.
   
   Organizations are starting to piece together collaboration technology, social software and BI to create collaborative decision-making environments. These efforts will continue to grow as organizations start to more proactively manage, capture and optimize decision processes and outcomes to improve performance beyond the decision inputs such as BI.

For a comprehensive look at Gartner recommendations for these predictions and today’s hottest BI priorities, join us in 2 weeks!

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