Sunday, November 30, 2008

Upgrading your data integration efforts to enable Business Intelligence (BI) 2.0


I read a post in Informatica Corporation's blog, entitled Upgrading your data integration efforts to enable Business Intelligence (BI) 2.0, written by Rick Sherman.

He mentioned two good articles that talking about the concepts of BI 2.0, the first article called Business Intelligence 2.0: Simpler, More Accessible, Inevitable, written by Neil Raden, and published in Intelligent Enterprise; and the second article called BI 2.0: The Next Generation, written by Charles Nichols, and published in DM Review.

He said: "With the advent of ICCs (Integration Competency Centers) and robust data integration suites, companies can eliminate integration stovepipe efforts and work towards enabling one data integration backbone. Common people, processes and procedures work towards data integration.

BI 2.0 sounds cool and makes you think you need yet another BI tool. Of course that BI tool has to be the latest and greatest BI tool on the market today but don’t be fooled, it is really not about BI 2.0 but rather DI 2.0 (Data Integration 2.0.)"

I agree with him when he talks about data integration, but I think the new concepts of Data Integration are included in the concepts of BI 2.0.

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