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Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing: What's Next?

Actually BI/DW is becoming more integral part of the IT solutions landscape. All these years IT did manage to deliver the process automation and information delivery by using mainframe, client-server to internet technologies. In addition they were focused on cost containment using vendor management, tool selection and outsourcing.

In most IT shops BI/DW was more an afterthought. Predominantly BI/DW projects were like prototype or addressed a narrow realm of information needs. Only recently the organization maturity is coming around to view BI/DW as an important tool to be ubiquitously integrated as part of the overall IT strategy. IBM is well positioned to make it possible with vast array of tools and services. In fact technologically IBM has superior expertise in commercial data mining solutions.