The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
By Peter Schooff, Managing Editor, ebizQ , 05/21/2007
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*Editor's note: This feature highlights a recent podcast in ebizQ's BI in BPM podcast series. Listen to all the podcasts right here.
We're hearing very different visions for how business intelligence is going to be used, said Beth Gold-Bernstein, in part two of three of ebizQ's BI in BPM roundtable podcast, focused on embedding BI tools into Business Process Management technologies. "But what's clear is that all the vendors we're speaking to are making BI more pervasive across the organization," she said, "and making BI available to more and more users, in more and more situations."
Frank Pursel, Senior Principal of Hewlett Packard's Information Management Practice, said he has seen the focus of BI change considerably in the past fifteen years, from BI being more of a mid-management tool to now being used at almost all levels of business.
"We're seeing a lot more people using a lot more types of business intelligence and what HP is focused on is really looking at the end-to-end solution," Pursel said. "How we can take the information, gather it, collect it and also bring it out and deliver that information wherever it needs to be in a timely manner."
Pursel was asked if HP is going to focus on an end-to-end solution, and if so what part will BI play in it. He indicated that the goal is to integrate the information that supports the Key Performance Indicators, as well as, "helping people understand where they can get the biggest return on their investment and BI."
Gaurav Verma, Business Intelligence Marketing Manager of SAS, said he has seen BI grow from simple ad-hoc reports to actually answering questions about the future of a business and providing insights into what will happen next.
An important factor in the future of BI, Verma stated, will not only be BI's use of structured data, but its application to unstructured data. In terms of building BI into BPM, Verma said, "We are starting to see more and more businesses reacting to trends and patterns derived from the business processes, so you're starting to see conversions of business process and the data."
As SAS moves into vertical and horizontal applications, how do they intend to integrate SOA and BPM platforms and automating processes? "By allowing customers to capture and embed business logics, sometimes referred to as total processes. These are basically a set of reusable services that anything within the SAS stack will be able to interact with and not having to rewrite and regenerate that every time. It is a continuous process. It is very operational in nature. But it's looking at different technologies and different skill sets and bringing them together," said Verma.
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Insurance: Explore how SOA & BPM are driving down expenses and improving ROI
BPM VIEWPOINT: Are You Asking Yourself the Hard Questions about BPM in Today's Economy? 
BPM VIEWPOINT: Does Oracle/Sun Mean It's a Horse Race for BPM?
Managing Case Management Within BPM
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BPM VIEWPOINT: Does Case Management Fill in the Gaps in the BPM Spectrum?
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