Web 2.0 sparks BI 2.0 revolution

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Apr 19, 20072 mins

Applications: Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, mashups and data tags are lighting up what Business Objects CEO John Schwarz calls a ‘Business Intelligence 2.0 Revolution’. The coming changes will make data more accessible and, ultimately, result in social networks to give users the ability to pool resources. Related: Next OpenOffice to include Pentaho BI.

Video: Speaking of Web 2.0, there’s a conference on that very subject taking place this week. Executive editor Eric Knorr speaks with three CEOs from the Web 2.0 realm attending the show. “On the one hand are wild and wooly mashups,” Knorr kicks off the conversation. “On the other is enterprise IT.” Watch it here.

Best of the blogs: Open source is both threat and oppurtunity for Microsoft. “The real question is how to work with a company that must, of necessity, turn a Janus face to open source,” Matt Asay writes in Microsoft tries to maintain its monopoly, are you surprised? “Microsoft has been very helpful to a range of open source startups, including my own. Kudos for that. But does that work outweigh the harm that Microsoft does with things like this Florida shenanigan?”

The news beat: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says that SaaS should not create a widespread loss of jobs. (I’ll let you, reader, decide whether to believe this or not…) Hewlett-Packard soars higher in PC sales, continuing to boost its lead over rival Dell. And the wife of an imprisoned Chinese dissident smacks Yahoo with a lawsuit for allegedly revealing information that led to her husband being not only arrested, but also tortured.