Letter From the Editor Howard Dresner - 14 December 2001 In this spotlight we've compiled research to help you better plan for some of the major "sea changes" 2002 will bring to business intelligence (BI). New technologies and ideas will emerge. Even though the extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) market will slow, it will continue to grow by 5 percent to 7 percent — amazing, given economic conditions. In 2002, there will be important technological advances in flexible, energetic information management capabilities that will enhance BI's ability to support business strategies ranging from straight-through processing to customer relationship management. It will also be a time of risk. New and established vendors will find extremely challenging markets in 2002. And, enterprises will be exposed to embryonic technologies that will promise benefits that prove elusive. The years from 1998 to 2001 have been regarded by some as BI's "lost years," but mature vendors face some major changes and innovations from now until 2004. Many new vendors, and possibly even new leaders, will enter the BI marketplace.  Read more

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	Overview Business Intelligence in 2002: A Coming of Age 14 December 2001 Howard Dresner Business intelligence will transform significantly in 2002. New technologies will emerge and merge with existing ones, changing what the market thinks is BI and forcing vendors to deal with a different marketplace.

The BI Hype Cycle: Major Innovation Ahead 14 December 2001 Frank Buytendijk   1998 through 2001 have been particularly uninnovative for BI. Mature vendors are facing slowing innovation and must move to the next level. By 2003 or 2004, the established order will be challenged.		New Technologies, Ideas Will Lift BI, but Not Until 2004 14 December 2001 Alan Tiedrich   Frank Buytendijk   Howard Dresner   Enterprises that believe wireless and mobile technologies, collaborative business intelligence and business activity monitoring will transform BI are right, but they have a long wait in front of them.
2002: A Watershed Year for Information Infrastructures 13 December 2001 Mary Knox In 2002, best practices in logical architectures and data standards will drive toward a consolidated, logically consistent data source; however, economics and politics will dictate business conditions.		ETL Market Set for Continued but Limited Growth in 2002 12 December 2001 Ted Friedman The extraction, transformation and loading market has experienced significant growth for the past three years. Despite the poor economy, the ETL market will continue to grow, but only by 5 percent to 7 percent in 2002.
CPM Will Benefit ERP Vendors' BI Strategy 14 December 2001 Nigel Rayner Corporate performance management will come into its own in 2002. ERP vendors will use this opportunity to increase the foothold of their proprietary infrastructure in the BI platforms market.