Business Intelligence Still A Problem For Small And Medium Firms

An InformationWeek article released earlier today (US EDT) highlighted the struggles that small and medium size businesses still face in attempting to implement business intelligence (BI). The article, which quoted a survey by BI vendor LogiXML, noted that nearly half of all non-technical users polled were dissatisfied with their BI implementations. The main hurdles are cost and lack of IT staff, cited by 27 and 26 percent of respondents respectively. The 575 respondent firms polled by LogiXML were predominantly small and medium in size.

An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again)

A press release issued earlier this morning (US EDT) by Star Analytics touts the company's offering. Star Command Center 3.0. Star Command Center isn't really a business intelligence (BI) software package itself. Rather, it sits on top of other vendors' BI platforms, providing a single interface to all your enterprise's BI applications. (Enterprise? Star Command? Hmm . . .)