On 10 Ott, 14:03, Yellowfin Public Relations <i...@yellowfin.com.au>
wrote:

>
> The BI software market is undergoing a major shift. For all the talk
> and hype BI for the masses is starting to happen. BI solutions such as
> Yellowfin which deliver user friendly web based reporting are making
> BI easy, and analytical skill sets are increasing in organisations.
> Yellowfin's collaborative technology encourages report writing by the
> staff that own and know their data sets. Reports are easily shared
> with the non-expert user base. The days of consultants earning revenue
> by writing reports are coming to a swift end. Consultancies need to


Enterprise Reporting is probably a prerequisite for B.I. But I would
keep
them distinct. And BI needs, probably, more advanced tools than the
simple
analytics which can be performed on a reportgrid. Reducing BI to
reporting
means to restrict too much its domain.

> SAP's purchase of Business Objects leaves no doubt. The mature ERP
> market has to extend its reach if it is to maintain revenue growth. It
> is here that we have competing skills - ERP consultants with an
> understanding of the source data versus those with an understanding of
> how to package and deliver it for BI. To compete with the ERP
> consultant the BI consultant needs to pre-package solutions for ERP
> applications that leverages their BI expertise and can be quickly
> customised for their clients.

That's a possible interpretation. Another, for buying, is that Oracle
has taken Hyperion.
And for selling, that BO lately seemed to have lost control on its
products and their further
development.

Here, as matter of fact, BO is being dismissed by lots of big
companies.
Apart the huge BO commercial machine, if we consider the level of the
products, I am not completely
sure SAP made the best of the investments.

-P