The BI-advantage is disappearing for large corporations

From SAS Institute, Jesper Schleimann presented the demands that the market puts on new and existing BI-solutions. While BI is a mature product today the challenge has changed from building new BI-systems from the bottom up, to evolve the existing BI-solutions to follow the changes any corporation has to deal with. As the organization grows and new values appear in both old and new data existing systems must either adapt or be replaced, both are very expensive propositions to large enterprises.

The main drivers in the BI-evolution, is the constant need for even faster business?? and a market that seems to get more volatile every day. And on top of that, there’s a new drive to make information infrastructure business oriented. This means changes and heavy investments for large enterprises.

SAS delivers solutions to some of the worlds largest and most competitive companies, but the arguments that make these major players go even further into BI, are the exact same arguments that will drive BI deeper into the smaller corporations as well.

Business Intelligence based on expensive data warehouses and major upgrades is out of reach for many successful companies of all sizes, but LEAN BI will level the playing field and give small companies the same benefits as their largest competitor, instantly.

With leaner organizations, fewer data and fewer applications, most of the hassle of BI will disappear and today BI can be delivered in less than a day at a fraction of the cost.

LEAN BI works with your live data, eliminating the need to copy data from your existing systems into data warehouses or data marts before you can use them in your BI-system. Since a lot of companies are in fact using similar systems there is a broad range of experience in the market place and this allows LEAN BI systems to be implemented extremely fast, even when tailoring data models to existing data structures.

The bottom line is that the advantage that larger companies had before with extensive BI, may now turn into a disadvantage, since smaller and leaner competitors can now implement the same capabilities simpler, faster and much cheaper.

All this will slow down the largest enterprises while the SMB-market will pick up the best of classical BI in faster, cheaper and trustworthy LEAN BI applications.