Business intelligence survey reveals mixed satisfaction in its results

Rethink IT, Oct, 2004

Of the 63% of sites that do plan further or new investment in data warehousing and related technologies, 32% will make this decision within six months (by the end of 2006); 64% will do so within a year; and 24% between one and two years from the date of the questionnaires (June 2006). None have firm plans for more than two years from now.

Of those that plan the most immediate purchases, all are existing users with systems over one year old. 80% of them are buying additional licenses and the rest are looking for a mixture of expanding the existing application and investing in a new, related tools.

In the group that will invest in the 6-12 month timescale, 29% are currently non-users, looking for brand new installations; 25% are sites with systems over three years old, all of them purchasing additional licenses for the existing product; and 58% are newer users, with systems of a year old or less. These are divided between expansion of the current system (50%), or the addition of whole new functions to that system (7%), or of new products to complement it (29%). 14% are planning to replace their current system within a year.

Most of the sites that have plans for the one to two year timeframe are currently non-users. The pattern shows that, while existing business intelligence users are making short term decisions on purchasing, those embarking on new projects are still more cautious and may be looking to longer roll-out schedules because of budgetary caution or long approval processes in the wake of the IT downturn.