5 Business Intelligence Predictions between 2009-2012

Gartner, Inc. has revealed its 5 predictions for Business Intelligence (BI) between 2009-2012. Analysts' predictions ranged from the impact of business units exerting greater control over analytic applications to the effect of the economic crisis and how it will force a renewed focus on information trust and transparency to innovations such as collaborative decision making and trusted data providers.

01. Through 2012, more than 35 per cent of the top 5,000 global companies will regularly fail to make insightful decisions about significant changes in their business and markets.

02. By 2012, business units will control at least 40 per cent of the total budget for BI.

03. By 2010, 20 percent of organizations will have an industry-specific analytic application delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as a standard component of their BI portfolio.

04. In 2009, collaborative decision making will emerge as a new product category that combines social software with BI platform capabilities.

05. By 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through course-grained application mashups.