Manufacturing Business Technology wrote about “real world” BI acceptance as not matching predictions of think tanks and vendors. My previous post challenged them to consider how market acceptance works before doing surveys and reports of “reality”, i.e., what should be analyzed is the “early adopter” acceptance because they tend to drive acceptance by others. Here is an example of some of the skewed thinking in the report:
“We regularly find that the received wisdom in this industry doesn’t match what the majority of real-world users are finding. For instance, almost all demos now focus on the web version of the product. …read more

Continuing with my comments on Manufacturing Business Technology’s article on BI hype, I can’t help but reveal what I think is the source of this skewering of BI vendors: an “ax to grind”. It appears that the author of the report does not like big BI vendors nor does he understand their role in introducing technology to the marketplace:
“The biggest BI-related myth of all, according to Pendse, is that larger, more expensive solutions deliver greater business value. “We have found that some of the big-name vendors and the most expensive products are not delivering the same business benefits or level …read more