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The BI Survey 9 presents results and analysis from the world’s largest and most thorough vendor-independent survey of business intelligence users and consultants.

This annual report, due to be published on 1st September, gives a detailed snapshot of the business intelligence market based on over 2000 survey responses.

It contains more than 250 pages packed with fresh findings, charts and insightful analysis from BARC’s team of experienced BI analysts, and will enable readers to:

• Quickly discover the strengths and weaknesses of 23 leading business intelligence products

• Find out which vendors offer the best (and worst) performance, product reliability and support

• By discovering product weaknesses, strengthen your negotiating position with vendors

• Learn what makes for a successful tool selection and implementation project

• Understand the hidden costs of BI ownership - license fees are often just the tip of the iceberg

If you are planning, or embarking on, a business intelligence selection project, The BI Survey 9 will provide you with key product and market information to support your decision. And for organizations operating in the BI industry, it is absolutely essential reading.

For more information, visit www.bi-survey.com

After fourteen years as the definitive web site for information about on-line analytical processing (OLAP) products, vendors, technologies and market analysis, The OLAP Report has been replaced by a new online resource – The BI Verdict. “The OLAP Report is making way for The BI Verdict to provide an improved and wider-ranging service to our customers.” revealed BARC’s founder and CEO, Carsten Bange.

“We will continue to publish the vendor-independent product reviews and market analysis which formed the cornerstone of The OLAP Report, but subscribers to The BI Verdict will now have access to a wealth of extra information including findings from The BI Survey, the world’s largest survey of BI end-users.”

The BI Verdict is online now at www.bi-verdict.com

This global study explores the key challenges organizations face today, the implications of these challenges on performance management processes, future process improvement priorities as well as integration levels between the different performance management processes.

This vendor-independent empirical study is based on 553 responses from organizations across a wide range industries, countries and company sizes. Most respondents were executives from departments such as finance, IT and general management. The study was conducted between March and May 2009.

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