What's Hot, What's Not

  Business Intelligence   Strategy  

As many of you have already spent some time shaking off that New Year's Eve hangover, and jubilation or despair due to your alma mater's performance in the Bowls, you've undoubtedly started think about the year ahead and what's to come. While you've probably seen 2005 "expert predictions" in almost every area such as tech gadgets, political prophecy and business performance (just to name a few), I doubt there are many out there venturing on what 2005 will bring for those of you in the BI craft. So as the BI prophet in-charge here at gantthead, I thought I would impart my wisdom on where I believe things are headed.

What's Hot for 2005?

Pervasive Business Intelligence

Face it, business intelligence is now everywhere. While business intelligence started as a replacement for those paper reports of the '70s, it IS the key differentiator for many companies today. Look at Walmart or Target. Do you think they would be able to optimize their businesses without sophisticated business intelligence systems? Absolutely not.

Even more interesting than the Fortune 500's dependency on business intelligence is its breadth of applications. Business intelligence is now utilized in a new variety of applications from bioinformatics to network security monitory. In 2005, look for the pervasiveness to continue. With the interest in RFID systems and embedded …

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