Recently, I attended to a 3 days Business Intelligence summit at Toronto, the content was excellent and the overall experience was positive thanks to the many case studies presented and the diversity/quality of the presenters.

Every day, there were a couple of “Sponsors” presentations that were intended to expose the vendor’s side of the story; the majority of these presentations ended up being vulgar sales pitches that contradicted many of the best practices provided by the “real” presenters, which created a lot of confusion.

This has prompted me to think the reasons why so many BI vendors fail to deliver their value proposition. So without further due, here are the five reasons why I believe Business Intelligence vendors fail:

5. Lack of standards
It’s 2008, the era of the web 2.0 and real time data modeling; most of the companies understand the value of being a data driven organization; yet we have not created standard processes and frameworks to execute the most common tasks of a BI Implementation.
What ETL process should you use? – OLAP, OLTP, In-memory Processing? – How do you represent the data?

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