QUERY: What's Next In BI?

The article focuses on the development in business intelligence (BI) in the U.S. Oracle Corp.'s acquisition of Hyperion Solutions Corp. is considered to be the latest improvement since the beginning of 2007. This deal gives the company a stronger BI portfolio to pursue enterprise application rival SAP. Hewlett-Packard revealed that it has been developing a data warehousing platform of its own. Moreover, it has been argued by Microsoft Corp. that companies can thrust BI to more employees.