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... Companies are moving from older definitions of business intelligence to "pervasive BI," which includes not only business delivery, but also the ability to learn and understand the business in order to optimize performance and achieve efficiency, according to Kurt Schlegel, Gartner (gart ner.com) research director.
"The evolution of BI will continue to be driven by the business need to incorporate BI-style analytics directly into business process management," Schlegel said at the conference, which was held March 12 to 14.
"By 2015," he predicted, "BI practices, methodologies and technologies will have become recognized as core and integral components within 80 percent of enterprise applications. Organizations must find balance between empowering humans to make the right decisions and bolstering their processes with basic, quantifiable optimization techniques."
Betsy Burton, VP distinguished analyst at Gartner, said that BI users will continue to...
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