Saturday, August 27, 2011

BARC Summarizes BI M&A

In a free analysis, BARC's BI Verdict site offers a nice summary of the business intelligence industry's merger and acquisition activities going all the way back to the 1994 purchase of Pilot Lightship by Dun & Bradstreet.

You can see it here.

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Doug Lautzenheiser is a leading subject matter expert in the use of Business Intelligence software within corporate organizations. He is one the top authorities in the WebFOCUS BI software product, from Manhattan-based Information Builders. While a vendor employee, Doug was trained and certified in IB's BI products all the way through the internal workings of the software.

During his 13-year career with IB, Doug led regional education, consulting, and pre-sales technical support services. In addition to being a software vendor employee, Doug spent 7 years with IB customers and 5 years with IB partners.

Doug has provided BI services to organizations such as Procter & Gamble, Wendy's/Arby's Group, Omnicare, TriHealth, Hormel Foods, JPMorgan Chase, MasterCard, the State of Indiana, the State of Oklahoma, and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Doug is general manager of Partner Intelligence, a Cincinnati-based consulting firm specializing in BI professional services such as strategic advice, BI application development, and tools/methodologies for automating BI application development tasks.