Business intelligence is the fastest growing software category but skills shortages in the area are hampering deployments and universities are failing to address the problem, according to experts.
Australian companies are keen to deploy business intelligence (BI) software because it reduces the need for as many skilled workers, according to Business Objects.
MBF Australia has no qualms about headhunting skilled IT professionals from other large organisations as the nation's supply of technology talent continues to run low.
Universities are calling on IT vendors to make a greater investment in the tertiary sector to tackle the skills crisis.
SAP's acquisition of Business Objects is unlikely to cause the company's existing customers to rush out and add business intelligence applications.
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It wasn't all smooth sailing when Woolworths upgraded to SAP's BI 7.0 recently, but as the retail chain put it: "An ASX Top 10 company cannot consolidate their results on an Excel spreadsheet".
Victorian demand for ICT professionals marginally improved during the first half of 2003, "but it is still a buyer's market".
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These strategies will help companies ensure they are distributing the kind of high-quality, actionable BI necessary to make real-time business decisions.
What Gershon proposes is nothing more or less than a wide-scale, transformational change program. These unfortunately, rarely meet with complete success.
The new Crystal Vision product line combines technology from Crystal Reports, Crystal Xcelsius and Business Objects' Live Office -- aimed at the mid-market segment in Australia.
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