Future of Business Intelligence

An interesting response to an article on the future of business intelligence that came out last week. The blog talks about issues along the BI value chain and the need for innovation. However one issue might be the highly fragmented value chain itself and therefore some vertical integration might also make economic sense.  One interesting factoid that jumped out:

Most data warehouses are built by hand, which suits systems integrators just fine (all those yummy billable hours) but does not serve customers well. TDWI reckon an average data warehouse takes 16 months to deploy, USD 3 million to build and costs 72% of its development costs in support every year.