| Title: |
Web Services To Improve Business Intelligence |
| Author: |
Richard Veryard |
| Publication Date: |
11 June 2003 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Best Practice |
| Abstract: |
How business intelligence fits into a service-oriented world. With many new concepts there is a tendency for everyone to jump on the bandwagon. Thus we often see vendors rebranding their products and refashioning their marketing messages - sometimes regardless of genuine fit, relevance and readiness. But in the area of BI, there is strong justification for vendors to be getting excited about Web Services. The core attributes of Web Services potentially enable some really exciting and revolutionary ways to get more, better business intelligence. In this report we set some expectations and identify some vendors (including Actuate, Business Objects, Crystal Decisions, Cognos, Microsoft, Microstrategy and SPSS) that seem to understand this perspective. |
| Backgrounder: |
Web services are being widely discussed for integration of operational business processes. Many enterprises are starting to deploy web service technology for connecting applications internally. There is significant interest in deploying the same technologies externally, for connecting applications between multiple organizations, although this is currently inhibited by concerns about security and the immaturity of adequate standards.
Meanwhile, the use of the Internet as a platform for business intelligence (BI) is becoming more mature and sophisticated. There is an important role for web services in the business intelligence space, and some of the specialist BI vendors are starting to support web services.
Business intelligence is an important management function, and can undoubtedly benefit from the range of technological innovations with which CBDI members will be familiar, including web services and grid computing. We expect the deployment of these technologies, and the construction of a services-oriented architecture for the enterprise, to embrace management systems including BI, and not be restricted to operational systems.
In this report, we review the moves that the BI vendors have already taken to support web services, and offer a framework for integrating BI more comprehensively into the service-oriented world. |
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