Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study (TM) Video Number Two

Hello Folks.

I have recorded another video for your viewing pleasure. This one focuses upon two charts from the groundbreaking Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study (TM). I used one of these charts in my keynote presentation at Gartner's BI Summit last week.

Remember, you can order and download your very own copy of The Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study Findings and Analysis Report at our Official Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study Website.

In this video I discuss the trend away from large BI deployments and the likely increase in the numbers of BI tools that organizations will have to confront.

About The Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study (TM)

The “Wisdom of Crowds” Business Intelligence Market Study was created as a way to give a voice to those actually using BI solutions (i.e., “crowds sourcing”), creating a new and different perspective for measuring BI vendors and products in the market.

The Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study Findings and Analysis Report includes 68 pages of in-depth market and vendor analysis including over 25 pages of detailed vendor and product analysis, comparisons and rankings.

Order and download your copy today by visiting the official Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study website at www.business-intelligence-study.com.

If you act soon, you'll be invited to our soon-to-be-scheduled webinar where I'll review the findings and answer your questions - live!

Best,

Howard

Back from Gartner BI Summit & A Slide to Share

Hello Folks!

I just got back from the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Las Vegas. It was a great event - well attended, good content and a busy show floor with lots of vendors represented.

While there, I met with a number of attendees who are struggling to deliver business intelligence capabilities, and are hampered by a myriad of factors.

In my keynote presentation, I focused upon content from my latest book, Profiles in Performance, and what it takes to establish a "performance-directed culture" - a key enabler to successful BI. In an email from one of the attendees, they said:

"Your keynote session was very informative and a good pre-cursor to reading your book. I actually read most of it on the flight back home yesterday. I really enjoyed the Cleveland Clinic and Denihan case studies, and I think there is much I can take back from those two. We have definite culture obstacles that are preventing us from becoming truly performance driven, and this has stalled some of our BI initiatives. We actually have all the right enablers from a technology standpoint so that is one hurdle we shouldn't have to overcome, but the hardest one is the culture, right?? I think we are currently have a little bit of chaos and mostly departmental optimization, so as you state in the book, we can only improve."

Unfortunately, "departmental optimization" is quite typical and (unfortunately) may be on the rise.

Here's one of the slides that I used in my presentation to show that BI deployment sizes have decreased over time - suggesting that the numbers of tools within organizations continues to increase. This slide comes from my recent Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study (TM) and suggests that organizations are still lacking the right cultural direction and remain "departmentally optimized".

During my Gartner keynote, I mentioned that while reviewing the data from the study, I noted several respondents from the same organization claiming their BI tool was the only one in use! Clearly they need to read my book!

About The Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study (TM)

The “Wisdom of Crowds” Business Intelligence Market Study was created as a way to give a voice to those actually using BI solutions (i.e., “crowds sourcing”), creating a new and different perspective for measuring BI vendors and products in the market.

The Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study Findings and Analysis Report includes 68 pages of in-depth market and vendor analysis including over 25 pages of detailed vendor and product analysis, comparisons and rankings.

Order and download your copy today by visiting the official Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study website at www.business-intelligence-study.com.

If you act soon, you'll be invited to our soon-to-be-scheduled webinar where I'll review the findings and answer your questions - live!

Best,

Howard

Announcing The Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study (TM) Affiliate Program

Dear Colleagues,

Now that the Findings and Analysis Report from the Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study ™ has been released, we are launching:

The Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study ™ Affiliate Program

This new program was designed especially for consulting and advisory organizations - enabling them to offer objective BI product and vendor analysis, comparisons and rankings to their clientele - from a customers’ perspective - and from a well known and respected organization.

To refresh your memory, The “Wisdom of Crowds” Business Intelligence Market Study was created as a way to give a voice to those actually using BI solutions (i.e., “crowds sourcing”), creating a new and different perspective for measuring BI vendors and products in the market.

This breakthrough study answers key questions for customer/subscribers including :

- Which vendors are the best fit for their organization – based on size, geography and vertical industry? ( Because there’s no such thing as a “one size fits all” solution – and selecting the wrong solution can actually set their organization back)

- Which products offer capabilities that will best meet their needs (e.g., usability, scalability, ease of administration, etc)? Because a given feature only matters if it’s useful to THEM.

- Which vendors will offer the best value and overall experience – long and short term (e.g., buying experience, technical support, consulting services)? They’ll learn from their peers exactly what to expect from each vendor – so they can make decisions with “eyes wide open”

- Which vendors offer the greatest viability (e.g., which are best established, growing, etc.)

- And, much, much more …

Click here to learn more about the Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study ™ Affiliate Program and to apply TODAY!

Looking forward to working with you!

Best,

Visit the official Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study (TM) Website

Video Overview of Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study (TM)

Hello Folks!

Here's a video that I recorded - presenting an overview of the Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study (TM):



The Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study Findings and Analysis Report includes 68 pages of in-depth market and vendor analysis including over 25 pages of detailed vendor and product analysis, comparisons and rankings.

Order and download your copy today by visiting the official Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study website at www.business-intelligence-study.com.

If you act soon, you'll be invited to our soon-to-be-scheduled webinar where I'll review the findings and answer your questions - live!

Best,

Howard

Which Vendors are Ranked in the Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study (TM)??

Greetings!

Some of you have asked me which BI vendors were ranked in the Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study (TM).

Here is the list, in alphabetical order:

• Actuate
• Dimensional Insight
• IBM/Cognos/SPSS
• Information Builders (IBI)
• Jaspersoft
• Microsoft
• Microstrategy
• Oracle
• Pentaho
• PivotLink
• Qliktech
• SAP/Business Objects
• SAS Institute
• Tableau
• Tibco/Spotfire

Vendors that did not receive enough input to be ranked are included in other vendor and market analyses. These include: Birst, GoodData, Jedox, and Visual Mining.

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The Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study Findings and Analysis Report includes 68 pages of in-depth market and vendor analysis including over 20 pages of detailed vendor and product analysis, comparisons and rankings.

Order and download your copy today by visiting the official Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study website at www.business-intelligence-study.com.

If you act soon, you'll be invited to our soon-to-be-scheduled webinar where I'll review the findings and answer your questions - live!

Best,

Howard

Best,

Howard

Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study: Executive Summary and How to Buy

Hello Folks!

I am pleased to tell you that today we released the Findings and Analysis Report for the Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study (TM)!

In the report you'll find 68 pages of tables, charts and commentary about the market - as well as 25 pages of in-depth vendor/product analyses and rankings.

Below is the Executive Summary from the Report. I invite you to visit the Official Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study Website to learn more about the study and to order your personal copy of the Report today! If you order soon, you'll be invited to a special live webinar where I will present the findings and answer your questions.

Best,

Howard

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Executive Summary from Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study (TM)

• Functional alignment within organizations for Business Intelligence continues to shift. Most notably, in North America, business users appear to be growing in influence. Finance influence remains strong in all geographies and the IT Department appears to be growing in influence outside of North America.

• The largest deployments of Business Intelligence solutions can, predictably, be found in western countries, very large enterprises and in certain key industries. In spite of this, even the largest organizations seem to struggle to deploy BI to more than small, discrete groups of users. With the trend apparently favoring smaller deployments over time, many organizations will likely see their numbers of BI tools increase.

• The base of Business Intelligence is growing and shifting, with industry investment ebbing and flowing based on economic conditions and, in some instances, governmental regulation. With increased awareness, and lower cost and easier to deploy solutions, smaller organizations - worldwide (including emerging geographies) are more able to invest.

• Of the three Business Intelligence sub-segments, Titans and Established Pure-Plays are favored by IT Departments, in all geographies (including non-English speaking countries) and by larger-sized organizations. In contrast, Emerging vendors are found predominately in North America (excepting open source and non-US based vendors), and are favored by smaller organizations and business users.

• Top areas of vendor dissatisfaction include: integration with 3rd party technologies, time to resolve technical support problems and contractual terms and conditions. Areas of greatest satisfaction include: Sales product knowledge, robustness/sophistication of technology and Sales professionalism.

• The nature of vendor deployments over time and by organization size, deployment size, geography, vertical industry, and functional alignment - determines vendors’ niches and where they compete most effectively. It also indicates where they fall within their individual “life cycles” as companies.

Updated Top Ten Lists

When I first posted the Top Ten list, it was based on very preliminary data.

So, now with the benefit of all of the Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study data, I am posting two new/updated Top Ten lists: The Top Ten Biggest Problems with BI Vendors and The Top Ten Areas of Greatest Satisfaction with BI Vendors.

The findings and analysis report for the Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study is just undergoing some final edits and will be officially available on April 5th! More details can be found at http://www.business-intelligence-study.com.

Best,

Howard

Top Ten Biggest Problems with Business Intelligence Vendors

1. Integration with 3rd party technologies

2. Time to resolve technical support problems

3. Contractual terms and conditions

4. Online forums and documentation

5. Upgrade/migration to new versions

6. Follow up after the sale

7. Customization and Extensibility

8. Vendor consulting value

9. Sales understanding business/needs

10. Continuity of support personnel

Top Ten Areas of Greatest Satisfaction with Business Intelligence Vendors

1. Sales Product Knowledge

2. Robustness/sophistication of technology

3. Sales professionalism

4. Consult Product Knowledge

5. Consult Professionalism

6. Support Professionalism

7. Support Product Knowledge

8. Scalability

9. Overall Usability

10. Integration of components within product