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Quick Takes for the Week of July 13


July 17: The Aberdeen Group has released a study entitled The 2009 State of the Market: Mid-Year Insights Report. The study found that BI will have a high impact on organizations during the next two to five years. The study confirmed previously firm research that found that companies are interested in embedding BI within ERP, CRM and other enterprise applications. The study identifies drivers for the growth of BI.

July 16: Richard Herschel, the Chair of the Department of Decision & System Sciences at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, uses his column at The BeyeNETWORK to explore the impact of the Kindle DX on business intelligence. It’s a long and interesting column. Many of the points and assumptions can extend into devices such as mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and netbooks. The bottom line is that the advent of WiMax and, soon, LTE and devices with big screens challenges a lot of assumptions about where and how corporate data is introduced into, and used by, a BI platform.

July 15: This entertaining post by CNET’s Matt Assay is about BI – sort of. It also has a big takeaway for folks in the business. Assay describes the next generation of information and applications in very personal terms. He describes biking, exercise and diet apps that he uses to stay in shape. The point is that the data that will be collected and acted upon going forward is going to be extraordinarily granular and the applications very highly customized. This, of course, is as true in the business sector as it is with consumer apps. Vendors and end users not willing to deal with this landscape will be asking for trouble.

July 14: It’s a nice thought that BI can help in the fight against cancer. This piece focuses on Britain’s National Health Service’s use of The Cancer Commissioning Toolkit (CCT) to provide “an online, national view of responses and actions to cancer.” BI can fight cancer, the CIO writer says, by benchmarking incidence of the decease, mortality rates and myriad other relevant issues. The bulk of the story, which was written by an oncologist, focuses on the many uses of the CCT platform.

July 13: Michael Franklin, a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and the founder and CTO of Truviso, comments at GigaOm on a topic with which a lot of folks are grappling: The huge increases in the amount of data and organization must keep on top of. Franklin sees the same basic problem in two areas. The explosion of data makes it increasingly difficult to keep search functions current. At a more fundamental level, the increases are a challenge for data analytics and large-scale data management systems, he writes.

–Carl Weinschenk