Web 2.0 is Dead! Good thing B2B 3.0 Takes Business Intelligence Out of IT's Hands and Into Yours

October 14, 2008, blog.sourcinginnovation.com

Loren Feldman of 1938 Media is right! Web 2.0 is Dead! Good thing there's B2B 3.0 to pick up the slack!

Scanning through the past few months of ZDNet's Tech archives, I came across this commentary by Sid Probstein, CTO of Attivio, one of the many companies popping up in the "semantic web" and "enterprise search" spaces that is likely a competitor to Endeca, a company you've probably read about on Spend Matters. While I'm not going to comment on either solution, both of which appear to me to be a merger of traditional OLAP BI engines with better rules engines (which give the user more flexibility in both the definition and application of business rules for data segmentation and reporting), I definitely agree with the premise of the commentary, that IT's involvement in Business Intelligence (BI) will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench their thirst for information, and believe that it will happen as these users adopt more and more B2B 3.0 technologies.   Read full article.