Technical staff and management has impressive track record. It's an expensive product, which limits its market right from the start.
Nothing grows faster than corporate data.
But too often these tools were designed for specialists. And when they face large volumes of distributed data, they tend to screech to a halt or become very inefficient. Larry Barbetta, once a senior vice president of business intelligence at Platinum Technology Inc.and chairman of the OLAP Council, says he recognized the problem. We saw the Internet had created a new set of capabilities for the average person. In fact, the average Web surfer has better access to distributed, unstructured data than the corporate executive does to the structured, stored data his organization owns and manages.