Posts Tagged ‘Dynamic decision making’

Highlights from the 2010 Pacific Crest Technology Conference : SaaS as a Catalyst for Business Intelligence and Analytics

February 27th, 2010

qgallivan

This week I was on a panel discussing the growing state of Cloud Computing and the SaaS BI market. The panel consisted of moderator Nabil Elsheshai, Senior Analyst of Information Management Software and IT Services at Pacific Crest along with Bill Soward, CEO of Adaptive Planning; Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft; Scott Weiner, CTO of Cloud9, and myself. I want to share some key themes and observations from the event particularly because they set the tone for the next evolution of BI.

The criteria IT uses to buy BI has shifted, resulting in a new approach to BI decision-making. The era of high risk, complex and time consuming implementations is giving way to a new era of quick BI wins defined by specific business use-cases that are implemented in days, not months or years, with no CAPEX spending and extremely fast time-to-value. At PivotLink we’re seeing this shift in buying criteria being driven by both IT and the line of business. IT needs to deliver a faster turnaround on BI solutions for high priority business projects and do so with limited resources. SaaS BI is a perfect augmentation strategy for legacy BI implementations. By enabling IT to better support the business with highly secure, easy-to-use tools and right-time data – all without breaking the bank or bringing on new resources - SaaS BI is the best tool for these high value quick BI wins!

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Analytics, business analytics, data mash-ups, Dynamic decision making, Enterprise 2.0, Innovation, insight, KPI, Metrics

The New BI…is about to get really interesting!

February 12th, 2010

qgallivan

Imagine being able to help your executive team anticipate and address hotspots in your business, spending less time chasing data and building reports and more time measuring the precise aspects that matter most to you; collaborating online with communities of experts (colleagues, customers, suppliers); discovering insights that allow you to improve profitability, capitalize on growth opportunites and innovate faster! Now you can do this quickly, cost-effectively and without burdening IT. This is the New BI – an emerging paradigm for analytics designed around the way people really work, share information and make decisions. All powered by solutions from PivotLink and PivotLink partners.

The New BI is in the cloud and benefits from the inherent advantages of this computing model (affordable, agile, quickly deployable, high bandwidth, “always on”, extend more kinds of data to more users). Most importantly, the New BI isn’t shackled behind the four walls of an organization. It goes well beyond and helps individuals extend their network far and fast enough to get timely insights and answers to their operational and strategic questions. The New BI goes beyond analysis and reporting and ventures into the realm of true collaborative decision making. Web 2.0 social tools wrapped around the New BI have the ability to quickly collect and spread knowledge, connect people who would otherwise have remained unaware of each other, harness their collective intelligence and enhance individual decision making.

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