BI sudden emergence: moisten things silently

2012 has just passed, a variety of style this year really a fire. The relative, enterprise IT application on the stage, "cloud sister" also by virtue of its crazy dance conquered the vast number of users, the pressure "bird uncle" influence. Recently, it seems that every software provider has an eager ambition for cloud computing. However, in the old saying that "alone is better than one", "cloud sister" will not necessarily be the one-man show on this stage. With her motivation, big data spotlights lit up the stage, and business people like BI (Business Intelligence) shines.

The first of BI (Business Intelligence) dates back to 1958, when IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn first proposed the concept of business intelligence in an article in the IBM journals. However, DSS was not popular until 1980, and business intelligence became popular in 1990. Today, more than 20 years of business intelligence experience, can be described as generous, especially the big data hit, making BI (business intelligence) has become the king of the times in this data to open up the boundaries of the sword of Xuanyuan.

Four King Qi acquisition of the sudden rise of BI in the field

When Microsoft bought Yammer, corporate socialization became an inevitable development. When the four international software giants focused their eyes on the field of BI, they thought BI would not be crazy.

IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP four major international giants invasion, making the field of continuous warming BI. Over the years, IBM acquired Alphablox, AscentialSoftware, UnicomSolutions, SPSS, etc., and acquired Cognos for $ 5 billion to begin a comprehensive deployment of SOA BI. Recently, IBM and StoredIQ software company into the bag, in order to enhance its big data processing capabilities, we can see IBM's BI ambition whale swallowing.

As early as 2004, Microsoft acquired ActiveViews in order to enhance its database reporting tools, can be described as Mingxian reporting tool on the path of the dark field of BI positions. In the next few years, Microsoft also acquired ProClarity, into the business intelligence software market. Later, the ambitions of Microsoft to acquire Datallegro to deeply expand the data warehouse level are now beginning to emerge. Next, Microsoft introduced its portfolio of business intelligence solutions and the BI category.

IBM and Microsoft's little tricks appeared, Oracle that restless heart will not restrain. In 2006, Oracle acquired Sunopsis software, a comprehensive web data integration technology, to better obtain data from disparate sources and use that data for data analysis and other tasks in a particular area. Subsequently, Oracle also actively layout strategy in the field of BI, the acquisition of Hyperion, to provide customers with full-featured EPM system, the transaction, BI (Business Intelligence) and financial performance management solutions combine organic.

As an Oracle rival to SAP, how can they stay alive without warning? In 2007, SAP acquired analytic software maker Pilot Software, which is compatible with SAP's products and platforms and uses analytical methods to improve work efficiency. Soon after, SAP announced that it had made major strides in BI by acquiring 4.8 billion euros (6.8 billion U.S. dollars) in Business Objects, a business intelligence software company.

As a result, the four kings almost fanatical pursuit, making BI (Business Intelligence) vigorous boom up. At the same time, UF WATERS acquired Guangzhou Shangnan Technology, released BQ business intelligence platform, and AsiaInfo's acquisition of Pacific Software BI business and so on. A group of domestic BI vendors are gradually growing up, the more well-known domestic BI vendors have Bo Yi Zhi soft, UF China table, a long time and so on.

Darling of big data era BI development in three directions

With the mergers and acquisitions of major software vendors, BI has become a flash point for enterprise-class software. Coupled with the downturn in big data, BI (Business Intelligence) is bound to become the new darling of this era. BI selection expert, Bo Yi Zhi soft (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. Chairman / General Manager Li Kai has said the acquisition is only a prelude to the emergence of BI, user needs is the key. After a period of market brewing, BI system will be out in 2013 amassed strength. In the next few years, BI will tend to be more rational development, rather than stoop mania, BI overall will show three directions of extension: integration, intelligence, mobile.

Nowadays, the construction of enterprise informatization not only has a wide range of popularization in the breadth, but also for a certain enterprise itself. Enterprises installed software systems, and not just a set, this phenomenon led to the issue of decentralized enterprise information. Future BI will further integrate other heterogeneous systems, such as ERP, CRM and so on, to achieve integration between systems and data connectivity in order to better mine the information. Even through the portal technology, enterprise management platform to achieve comprehensive management. At the same time, with the development of enterprises, enterprises rely on the support of internal data to feel that enterprises will feel some powerless development. Therefore, BI also needs to strengthen the integration of external information and avoid the self-shrinking consequences caused by closed doors. Therefore, the next generation of BI systems need to integrate external information into the internal BI, to achieve intranet, interoperability of external networks, in order to be more comprehensive and more scientific basis for decision-making.

High standards of product, often provide a fool-type operation. Just as when buying an IPAD, you will not find the product manual just as full functional and user-friendly as it is for BI. Simple and easy to use will be an important index for future users to evaluate BI products. The humanized design concept will inevitably become the direction of BI development. The characteristics of heavy communication, high assistance and strong automatization will realize the independent push of value information and transform the data information into One can affect employee motivation. At the same time, data visualization analysis will also be the target pursued by the users. Through OLAP (Online Analytical Processing), the data information will be extracted from different dimensions. With the help of graphical means, the value of information can be conveyed clearly and effectively. In the BI system, Data analysis, patterns of events, forecasting of effects, and more.

In addition, in various software systems have set foot in the mobile season, BI will not be outdated, not to mention the user to submit data anytime, anywhere, access to analysis of the growing demand for the report. Infonetics, a market research firm, has forecast that global mobile subscribers will exceed 6 billion in 2012 and reach nearly 7 billion in 2016; and pointed out that the total number of mobile broadband subscribers in 2012 increased nearly 50% year-on-year to 846 million, In 2016, it increased to 26 billion. Can be seen that mobile collaborative applications will become the future of BI outbreak. With the proliferation of mobile terminals and the increasing desire of users for mobile office needs, mobile technology will break through the traditional application of infusing fresh blood into the BI system and real-time dynamic management of enterprises.

In the "cloud" mountain "cloud" sea, big data in the moment, BI is its silent gesture in the enterprise IT stage blooming its coveted posture, won the pursuit of the monarch.