Some researchers made a point that BI is not the core business of large Enterprise Software vendors, indicating a below average feedback by many of their BI and Performance Management users, and I say, this is true, to some extent, being able to put hands on almost every BI solution in the market, and from a very Middle-Eastern, GCC point of view, none of the big, medium and small vendors have even put a clean, clear, sharp roadmap for their offerings yet. Those acquisition voracious giants, and I am talking Oracle and SAP are looking first to enlarge their portfolios and offering, eliminate and shrug off competition, without a definite focus on the business intelligence vertical applications, and their overlapping products, are simply disgusting to certain users who are in the process of researching the market, simply in this case, bigger is not always better! Read More
Now from a consultant point of view, I do have some doubts on smaller vendors achieving what big organizations might need, specifically on large implementation that will require strength in capabilities handling huge amounts of data and dimensions.
However, the real deal is in the understanding of BI development that has been taking place on the integrator level rather than the vendor level, the little kid emerged from:

Application centric

To

People Centric

To

Process Centric

Yes process centric, the right processes will insure information reliability, will reduce data complexity and this reduction is key, and eventually will secure the rollout success, and in all this, the big vendor wins!
Performance: who cares if it takes a minute more, but it gets done accurately reliably and up to what was expected, so whether on disk, in memory or on moon architecture, the outcome is what counts, and above all, having a single source of data, where everyone, and I mean everyone in finance, HR, Sales or X department, independently, without calling the 800support extension, can number crunch, customize, print or publish the required report is key.
However, from noticing what goes around in Saudi Arabia, some users aren’t aware of what BI is, thinking of another reporting tool, but some others, are highly motivated by the concept as the understand the ultimate value, and I mean: the business value

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As operational excellence becomes the norm rather than the exception in business, companies need a new source of competitive differentiation. Increasingly, market leaders are creating strategic advantage through their ability to manage the performance network, rather than just transactional processes. This new imperative is called Management  Excellence. To achieve it, companies need to become smart, agile and aligned.
The Strategy-to-Success (S2S) framework expands the scope of traditional performance management to offer a framework by which companies can deliver Management Excellence. Enterprise Performance Management Systems (EPMS) then enable companies to realize their management process goals by connecting disparate management activities and bringing together strategy formulation, execution and feedback.
This paper introduces Management Excellence as a new business imperative, outlines six steps in the S2S framework, and illustrates how companies are deploying EPMS to attain their management process goals.

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