value vs. business value

Feb 2009, 1,5000 CIO's told Gartner that despite investing large budgets into BI they were not attaining business expectations.

Value is subjective while business value is objective.

While value means different things to different partners, business value is the true measure of BI success.

The only measure of success is whether users like your BI or not, everything else is an opinion or an interpretation.

Join hands to define an actionable roadmap to 'BI Business Value Attainment'

PS globally we spent over $61 billion on BI in 2008, $8.8 billion on BI SW alone, with 25% of that to SAP Business Objects installations.