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With Cognos getting acquired by IBM, it marks the end of the independent BI Vendor.

Less than 10 years ago, the marketplace was still looking for a dominant player, now there is not an independent market.  With this battle over, the next battle front will be the growth of the applications to sit on top of the BI Platforms.

Interestingly enough, Cognos’ less than successful attempt at Performance Apps was a little ahead of its time, but now the major players including Oracle are far advanced in the BI Apps.

Even with the death of the independent BI marketplace, this is still the most exciting time to be in the space.

Whether an IT, R&D, Marketing, Manufacturing or Sales department, we all have projects.  Granted some are more structured than others. Some use project plans.  Some use metrics.  Some are pure adhoc.   In any case, these projects generate project data, which translate to project metrics, which is the raw meat to feed analytics.  In the October DM Review, I outline Project Analytics and what they mean to any organization.

Read the Article at DM Review.