“I, BI, take thee EII…” This morning Cognos and Composite Software unveiled an arranged marriage of the former’s business intelligence reporting tool with the latter’s enterprise information integration software. The dynamic duo will form the basis of what several people called next-generation reporting. Executives from Composite, meanwhile, said that next generation reporting is the killer app for EII. In speaking with analysts about this newfound dynamic duo, it seems that next-generation reporting maybe the app that kills EII — not as a technology, but as a market with standalone products. Ted Friedman, a principal analyst at Gartner said that the industry will see more relationships like this one. But, in time, EII is likely to become a piece of the bigger picture, as opposed to best-of-breed tools. “I’d be surprised if EII is a standalone market over time,” Friedman said. Databases