Rescuing Your BI Applications Using an Application Management Provider (AMP)

by David Loshin

As the aftershocks of the September 11 events continue to reverberate, many companies are hunkering down, tightening their belts, and cutting the budgets of projects that will not directly contribute to fourth-quarter profits. When evaluating targets, business intelligence (BI) projects are easy prey, since they typically consume a lot of resources (hardware, software, people) upfront without generating immediate benefit. The result is that strategic BI projects are being killed, and this is the kind of action that will have long-term repercussions.