BI forecast for 2009-12

"I am mad and I will not take it anymore" Leo http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2009/02/i-am-mad-and-i-will-not-take-it-anymore-leo.html

How serious is Leo Apothekar when directing this at specific partners. Is this issue limited to the two or common across the partner landscape.
As I finish a white paper on how the priorities of BI are very rapidly changing we see a pattern in the BI Market.
Also why BI came back as the #2 priority of over 1,500 CEO's worldwide as reported by Gartner in Feb 2009, despite all these changing priorities is extremely interesting.

Global priority has shifted drastically from build to re-assess. The focus is moving from 'Ready, Fire, Aim' to 'Plan your work and only then work your plan'.

As more and more BI projects go live and deliver ever lower BVA scores (Business Value Attainment), enterprises are rethinking the ROI to their BI investments.

In an independent customer survey 92% of respondents felt that SAP BI, the focus in this study, had the potential to meet all business reporting requirements. However, only 34% felt their daily business needs had been met. 48% of respondents would not allow their legacy systems to be switched off and 65% were provided reports that did not add value to their day-to-day business needs.

We should be seeing an exceptional demand for resources that have strategic visions, business focus, have turned around BI projects and re-architecture and remodeling experts.

Companies that do not have a documented BI strategy, Standards or processes could continue doen a path of silo developments. The prediction is a resurgence of meeting business needs based on strong foundations, plans and directives.

'No wind is a good wind, if the captain knows not their destination'
Olde maritime quite

IS Bearing Point the next bankruptcy victim

With the current market trend of filing chapter 11 the news about bearing point is rather disheartening.



"On February 18, BearingPoint filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to escape a cash crunch from the weight of some $1 billion in debt. The company faced the possibility of being required to repurchase about $200 million of that in April. BearingPoint, a management and information technology services company spun off from KPMG LLP in 1999 and has 16,000 employees."