What Is the Future of Business Intelligence?

Roland Piquepaille writes "Mitch Betts asked this question to many technology leaders in the field of business intelligence. Here is one selected prediction. 'In five years, 100 million people will be using an information-visualization tool on a near-daily basis. And products that have visualization as one of their top three features will earn $1 billion per year,' says Ramana Rao, founder and chief technology officer, Inxight Software Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. Check this column for more forecasts and an update on the adoption of so-called 'executive dashboards.' You also can read the original Computerworld article for even more information."

The future?

[aardvarkjoe]

In the future, it will still be mythical...

Makes me want to go into business.

[Anonymous Coward]

At Southwest Airlines, they call them cockpits, and they're specialized, so that the guy in charge of putting peanuts on airplanes gets a different view than the guy who's in charge of purchasing jet fuel.

Dang. I thought my job sucked.

Heck, that's true now

[MarkusQ]

In five years, 100 million people will be using an information-visualization tool on a near-daily basis.

Heck, that's true now. They're called graphs.

But it does bolster my prediction that in five years three nines or better of the pundents attempting to capitalize on our paradigms will be using lingustic chicanery to obsfucate their metheodology.

-- MarkusQ

$1 billion per year ... visualization ... daily

[SpaceLifeForm]

Hmmm, did they arrive at this figure based upon the pr0n industry?

Re:You Really Want to Know?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're fired.

-- The Management.

Re:Heck, that's true now

[Obyron]

will be using lingustic chicanery to obsfucate their metheodology

And they still won't be using spellcheckers.

Re:Makes me want to go into business.

[Subcarrier]

the guy in charge of putting peanuts on airplanes gets a different view than the guy who's in charge of purchasing jet fuel.

Dang. I thought my job sucked.

It's not that different from being a zoo keeper except that the monkeys are wearing a business suit.

Re:The future?

[Peterus7]

In the future, these visualizations will work with windows media player and go with the music, holding little relevancy to anything, and yet people will love it. (sounds almost like a mac) Then people will start using it for business...

Re:IMO, The Future is Integrated

[Beliskner]

I figure that in the near future most businesses will become more integrated with the Internet. The potential for customers to order goods without ever leaving their home is a tremndous potential market that can only grow as more people (especially Americans) get online

And thanks to McDonalds most Americans will be too obese to leave their homes to go shopping, necessitating home delivery which will lead to a second dot-com boom.

If McDonalds starts home delivery, then McDonalds can be sued for "Genocide by use of Gastric Weapons of Mass Destruction."

The future of business intelligence?

[cdf123]

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Seems pretty clear to me.