This PPT talks about the emerging trends in BI applications. How diagonal hosted applications will make way for specialized vertical BI applications

1. Diagonal Business Intelligence A new category Emerges 25 th May 2008 Source: DM Review

2. As pressure increases for businesses of all sizes to leverage business intelligence (BI) for competitive advantage, there is a demand for new types of solutions to address the variety of business needs. As a result, a paradigm shift is emerging that opens up new approaches to the delivery and customization of BI solutions. =

4. The old world approach What’s your industry? Pick your BI Tool!

5. For example, a BI solution typically required the development of a data warehouse using an RDBMS, and on top of that, applications were developed using BI tools and SQL. This thick layer of application development adds substantially to the cost of any solution developed this way, and makes the deployment cycle long and the risk of project failure quite high.

6. It’s not the just the license cost, it is the resources that cost a lot too!

9. The applications across industry is not so distinct

11. The big BI Switch!

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