Gartner Research by Nigel Rayner.

Some interesting comments on Excel and the comment that it’s widely used because BI tools are too simple – I thought the reason why Excel was used was the fact that most BI tools were too complex…...

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Analyst firm Gartner predicts a slow growth in the business intelligence (BI) market during 2008 because of its increasing maturity. Gartner expects the BI market growth rate to be at 12.5 per cent this year, and to move beyond $7bn by 2011.

Some interesting comments but not an article I would whole heartedly follow based on the thriving interest especially in the mid market space for BI.