As silver sponsors of this year’s IDC BI Conference 2007 in London on the 14th June 2007, SolStonePlus, Oracle’s most experienced and highly respected BI Partner, were delighted to feature on this year’s Agenda. Their presentation entitled “Next Generation BI in today’s Real World” was very well-received. A brief synopsis of this presentation can be found below:

At events such as this, it is easy to get carried away with new technological concepts and ideas, losing sight of the reality of where companies actually are today in terms of executing their BI strategies. Our experience (more than 23 calendar years of it!) and knowledge of current clients suggests that the majority of organisations are still a long way away from realising even the “current” best-practice BI solutions, let alone the newer ideas being discussed today.

The Excel “spreadmart” still proliferates, too many BI data sources and reporting solutions are still parked in the “too difficult” folder, too much energy is still wasted in determining the relative priorities of IT initiatives v Business value-adds. We have examples such as a client with 30 disparate datamarts and 18 different BI toolsets, across almost every database platform, as well as multiple ERP's in support of their businesses. How on earth can you move on from that scenario?

True Business Intelligence has always been a hybrid challenge mid-way between business ambition and IT capability.

This presentation will outline a relatively new approach to BI that works right down that crucial hybrid line, placing the key emphasis on middleware rather than on business reporting or IT data integration issues, to gain the best of both worlds and build a consistent, pragmatic solution that supports the best-practice delivery ideals of “Think Big, Start Small” rather than a big-bang approach.

Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition will be used to illustrate how to deliver this today, not tomorrow, in the real world.”

A copy of this presentation is available to download from here.

To request an in-depth demonstration of Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, please email michelle.clelland@solstoneplus.com or call 01273 206555.