People have been using the term “business intelligence 2.0” for a few years, but it’s described in different ways. In Business Intelligence 2.0: Simpler, More Accessible, Inevitable Neil Raden says:
"…the current era of BI is coming to an end and will be succeeded by a BI 2.0 era that promises simplicity, universal access, real-time insight, collaboration, operational intelligence, connected services and a level of information abstraction that supports far greater agility and speed of analysis. The motivation for this "version upgrade" for BI is the need to move analytical intelligence into operations and to shrink the gap between analysis and action."
Charles Nichols writes, in BI 2.0: The Next Generation that:
"BI 2.0 is a term that encapsulates several important new concepts about the way that we use and exploit information in businesses, organizations and government. The term is also intrinsically linked with real-time and event-driven BI but is really about the application of these technologies to business processes."
BI 2.0 is not really about a new generation of BI tools to perform analytics but getting more comprehensive, consistent, correct and CURRENT data.
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Rick,
What is the point of having "more comprehensive, consistent, correct and CURRENT data" (your words) without "simplicity, universal access, real-time insight, collaboration, operational intelligence, connected services and a level of information abstraction that supports far greater agility and speed of analysis." (my words)?
-Neil Raden
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Posted by: nraden | November 29, 2008 at 07:12 PM