Even today, delivering business intelligence is far easier and much cheaper than it ever has been. With the emergence of products like QlikView with its in memory analysis, you no longer have to spend weeks or months preparing for a BI project.
Adepteq believe that as BI solutions become more affordable, they will filter down the chain of command and will not only be used as decision support tools for the strategists of the business but will enable the troops on the front line to carry out their roles more effictively.
Purchasing, Sales, HR and Warehouse staff will all benefit from knowledge at their level of the business. Up until now, cost has been a major barrier to BI tools being implemented at this level.
The companies that embrace this thinking will have better informed staff and a much clearer view of what's happening within their business (The old saying that knowledge is power has never been more true.
In fact Gartner predict that by 2012, 70% of Global 1000 companies will load detailed data into memory as the primary method to optimise BI application performance! - We see smaller organisations benefitting from solutions much sooner than this.