Your business needs are changing ... but can your applications keep up?

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Today, businesses too often view sustainability as just another business cost, merely seeking to comply with the latest environmental regulations. But over the coming decade operational transparency and corporate efficiency are likely to become ever more critical. Tomorrow's business will be a 'conscious' one: a business that recognises that sustainability can not only drive efficiencies but also drive smarter business decisions; a business with sustainability embedded into a strong Performance Management system, giving it the foresight and insight required to survive and thrive.

Business intelligence vendor Teradata is not worried by Oracle's and IBM's recent sabre rattling, saying the vendors' respective technologies remain fundamentally unsuited for high-performance analytics.

The high tech Titans - IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT), SAP (SAP) and EMC (EMC) – have been buying software firms at an amazing pace over the last half decade. According to BusinessWeek the tally is: Oracle $30 billion for 56 companies, Microsoft 79 companies, IBM 60 companies, EMC 40, and HPQ 34. Many of these acquisitions have been “tuck-ins” where the Titans have added the purchased company’s product capabilities into their product portfolio. This is a time honored practice the Titans and their smaller brethren, have used to expand beyond organic growth and tap the innovative ideas of entrepreneurs.

Last year was another busy one for business intelligence (BI). After the previous year's slew of acquisitions, 2008 saw the mega-vendors integrate their new BI technologies, while operational and on-demand BI saw gains in adoption. What does 2009 hold in store for BI? Three industry watchers share their 2009 BI forecasts.