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The Business Intelligence space is being radically challenged
by new forms of computing, including web services. Some of the BI vendors
are now offering web service solutions that allow BI content to be integrated
with other information, or fed into other applications. This creates exciting
opportunities for building BI into the service-oriented architecture, and
conversely for using the service-oriented architecture to short-circuit
the labor of traditional BI solutions such as data warehousing.
To date, the deployment of web services technology for commercial transaction processing has been limited. However, Business Intelligence already uses many external sources of information, and may therefore be more receptive to the use of external web services where this provides economic or technical advantages. We therefore expect the convergence of BI and web services to become mainstream in a fairly short timeframe – possibly earlier than the use of web services for pure transaction processing. |
Management Briefing (pdf)
Detailed Article (CBDI Journal, June 2003) - available to CBDI subscribers or for separate purchase |
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Vendor Summaryveryard projects > so > ws4bi > vendors |
| Vendor | Product | Description / Comment | URL |
| Actuate | Adaptive Reports | Allows customization of analytic content. | http://www.actuate.com/ |
| Business Objects | Data Integrator | Claims to be the industry’s first real-time and batch ETL (extract, transform, load) platform. | |
| Crystal Decisions | XML Report Web Services | Creates standalone BI web service. Or can link with .NET applications developed using Visual Studio | http://www.crystaldecisions.com |
| Cognos | Cognos Web Services SDK | Allows Cognos application content to be integrated into portal or other enterprise applications. | http://www.cognos.com/
products/web_services/ |
| Microsoft | SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) | Offers hub based on .NET. | http://www.microsoft.com/
solutions/bi/ |
| Microstrategy | Transactor | Supports closed-loop business intelligence | http://www.microstrategy.com/
solutions/Bicomponents/ Web_Services.asp |
| SPSS | SmartViewer web server. | Allows SPSS content to be viewed through a browser. | http://www.spss.com/ |
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Management Briefing
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Detailed Article (CBDI Journal, June 2003) - available to CBDI subscribers or for separate purchase |
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