Was talking to somebody the other day about the future of BI. For me the next phase for one of our projects is:
- Google search integration
- Mashups
- More self service
- Better targetted dashboarding
- Strategy map visualisation
- Process flow visualisation
- Alerts
But it was quite rightly pointed out these are all capabilities that have been around for a while and none of them were innovations.
Then we got onto a discussion about Portals and personalisation. And we came to the realisation that BI Portal capabilities have fallen way behind the current round of website capabilities.
- Where are the Google style single page, let me tell you what I want and you show me?
- Where are the full personalisation like Yahoo where I can drag and drop things on my page, display whatever I want where I want, without the need for somebody else to build it?
- Where are the Google/Yahoo style desktop widgets/gadgets/(insert word here)gets
- Where is the syndication, let me tell you what I like and then tell me when you have it
- Where are the collaboration capabilities like Blogs/Twitter, let me show everybody when I have created or found something usefull
- Where are the social network capabilities, aka facebook, where content is only part of the community
If our target audience for BI is the the masses, then these are the capabilities they are used to using on a daily basis. Who knows what will be next, buy isn’t BI capabilities already behind?
So ok starting with a topic of portal personalisation, I quickly got off topic into a whole raft of capabilities, or did I? Isn’t that what portals are all about, personalising content to meet a users needs and expectation.
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