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By Antone Gonsalves

The economic recession will force many organization to cut IT costs, but the one area where belt tightening can lead to better efficiency is in business intelligence.

The value of BI becomes more apparent in tough economic climates, when smart information and knowledge management professionals use the technology as a corporate asset to continue to survive, compete and thrive, according to a recent report by Forrester Research.

So rather than across the board cuts, Forrester recommends a more targeted approach of BI consolidation and optimization, as well as an evaluation to see if lower-cost technology alternatives will do. “These approaches can enable you to do more with less, leading to a win-win scenario that contribute to both your top and bottom lines,” said the report, entitled “BI Belt Tightening In A Tough Economic Climate” and written by analyst Boris Evelson.

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Linked from IT Brief

By Ken Lewis

Just over a year after Europe’s biggest business software firm purchased French company, Business Objects, SAP has announced that its business intelligence software revenue across Australia and New Zealand has grown by 24 per cent year on year.

SAP says it is succeeding in convincing customers to switch to SAP BusinessObjects solutions, signing deals with more than a dozen new customers in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), while also expanding sales to existing SAP and Business Objects customers.

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Linked from The Forrester Blog

By James Kobielus

The economic outlook isn’t all gloom and doom. Bright spots remain in some substantial IT growth sectors–most important, in the sprawling business intelligence (BI) market.

In the past month, we’ve seen solid financials–in some cases, record growth and profitability numbers–from leading BI vendors, including SAP (Business Objects), IBM (Cognos), and privately held SAS Institute. Oracle and Microsoft also seem to be doing fairly well with BI-related revenues. Even vendors that only participate in BI environments as a provider of data warehousing (DW) solutions (e.g., Sybase) or data integration (DI) middleware (e.g., Informatica) are reporting outstanding financials all the way through year-end 2008. That includes the period just passed when the world economy began to spiral wildly out of control.

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