World's largest BI survey results

The BI Survey is an annual report based on the world's largest independent survey of business intelligence (BI) and performance management users is in its seventh year of publication , according to Business Wire.

The BI Survey 7 uncovers the truth about why real-world organisations select BI products, what they do with them, and why they eventually abandon them.

With nearly 2 000 respondents contributing to seventh BI Survey, the analysis covers a broad range of BI tools.

International retail banks are set to spend a combined total of $9 billion on BI by 2012, says Direct Response.

The statistics for Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific collected by Datamonitor represent a rise from $5.6 billion in 2006.

According to the market analyst, competitive business environments combined with compliance pressure and economic turbulence is set to drive investment in BI software.

A new book on BI and reporting tools (BIRT) that provides understanding and structure in a fast paced, task driven and tutorial style is now available, according to Linux PR.

Practical data analysis and reporting with BIRT focuses on the most visible and familiar product built with the BIRT framework, which is the BIRT report designer.

BIRT is an Eclipse-based open source software project that provides reporting and BI capabilities for rich client and Web applications, especially those based on Java and J2EE.