Comments on: Has Business Intelligence Outlived its Usefulness? http://jtonedm.com/2008/03/03/has-business-intelligence-outlived-its-usefulness/ James Taylor on Everything Decision Management Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:08:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Neil Raden http://jtonedm.com/2008/03/03/has-business-intelligence-outlived-its-usefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-9152 Neil Raden Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:25:05 +0000 http://jtonedm.com/2008/03/03/has-business-intelligence-outlived-its-usefulness/#comment-9152 Hold on a second. I'm one of those who used the term BI 2.0, but I was pretty clear, i think, that I meant that it needed to follow Web 2.0. I've written a slew of articles about this. Here are a few: http://intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002610 http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185300410 http://www.intelligententerprise.com/toc/?day=01&month=10&year=2005 http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=54200331 http://www.intelligententerprise.com/030901/614feat1_1.jhtml?_requestid=61279 I've seen the exact opposite use of the term BI than Sandy noted. The data warehouse crowd quickly remaned everything data warehousing to BI. This would include Colin White, who conveniently changed his name from DBAssociates to BI-research, even though the prepopnderance of his work these days is architecture. The same can be said for B-Eye Network, whose marquee players are still largely data and database oriented. Even TDWI now identifies itself as the "...premier educational institute for business intelligence and data warehousing." So BI is a pretty murky term. Unfortunately the 2.0 designation has been used to death, so we're not going there anymore, but it is clear that BI, however you define it, is in an unstable position at the moment, caught between its own legacy and the need for rapid innovation. Hold on a second. I’m one of those who used the term BI 2.0, but I was pretty clear, i think, that I meant that it needed to follow Web 2.0. I’ve written a slew of articles about this. Here are a few:

http://intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002610
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185300410
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/toc/?day=01&month=10&year=2005
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=54200331
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/030901/614feat1_1.jhtml?_requestid=61279

I’ve seen the exact opposite use of the term BI than Sandy noted. The data warehouse crowd quickly remaned everything data warehousing to BI. This would include Colin White, who conveniently changed his name from DBAssociates to BI-research, even though the prepopnderance of his work these days is architecture. The same can be said for B-Eye Network, whose marquee players are still largely data and database oriented.

Even TDWI now identifies itself as the “…premier educational institute for business intelligence and data warehousing.”

So BI is a pretty murky term. Unfortunately the 2.0 designation has been used to death, so we’re not going there anymore, but it is clear that BI, however you define it, is in an unstable position at the moment, caught between its own legacy and the need for rapid innovation.

]]> By: Sandy Kemsley http://jtonedm.com/2008/03/03/has-business-intelligence-outlived-its-usefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-8956 Sandy Kemsley Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:51:21 +0000 http://jtonedm.com/2008/03/03/has-business-intelligence-outlived-its-usefulness/#comment-8956 The term BI has been causing confusion for quite a while: I tend to label the entire reporting/analytics/dashboard genre as BI, although others insist that BI is just the historical reporting part. Two years ago, I blogged about your comments from a Gartner BI conference (http://www.column2.com/2006/03/james-taylor-reporting-from-gartner-bi/), and pointed out the problem of constantly trying to rename the space, calling it all BI 2.0. The term BI has been causing confusion for quite a while: I tend to label the entire reporting/analytics/dashboard genre as BI, although others insist that BI is just the historical reporting part. Two years ago, I blogged about your comments from a Gartner BI conference (http://www.column2.com/2006/03/james-taylor-reporting-from-gartner-bi/), and pointed out the problem of constantly trying to rename the space, calling it all BI 2.0.

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