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Leading up to the ebizQ BI in Action Virtual Conference (June 20-21) we have been speaking with a variety of vendors - big vendors, small start ups, pureplay BI vendors, BPM vendors incorporating BI into their solutions, and platform vendors who offer a one of everything. We are asking them what they are doing to embed BI in BPM and SOA soutions. You can listen to these podcasts at the BI in Action site.

The focus of the first podcast was about what vendors are doing to integrate BI with BPM. The panelists were:
Luke Liang, Chief Executive Officer of InetSoft Technology
Maria Ross, Corporate Marketing Director, Savvion,
Lothar Schuvert, Director of SAP NetWeaver Solution Marketing
Jim Hare, VP of Product Marketing and Business Development, Cognos On-Demand
Marc Andrews, Program Director of Data Warehousing, IBM

A common theme was enabling real-time operational level BI, alerting business managers to potential problems and issues as they are occurring, rather than reporting that they happened at the end of the month. In fact, BI and BPM is what delivers the business value of SOA. Maria Ross put it well when she said, “BPM is the context, BI is the content.” BPM delivers business time operational BI.

InetSoft Technology is focusing on business plan execution through operational BI. Savvion, A BPM company which included dashboard analytics early on, focuses on the role of BI in improving performance management through business process optimization. Savvion also integrates with BI tools to deliver BPM with BI. Lothar Schubert of SAP spoke about delivering intelligent collaborative solutions, and the role of BI in these solutions and best practices for delivering real-time operational BI. Jim Hare of Cognos, a pure-play BI vendor, spoke about planning, understanding, and managing operational performance by monitoring activities and metrics and taking action when there’s a problem. This requires the information getting pushed to the right place, in a desktop widget.

Listen to the BI in Action podcasts series.

Do you agree? Do you see an expanding role for BI within your organization?

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