Integrating BI with Web 2.0 generates mixed reviews

Business Objects is learning that it is difficult to please all of the people all of the time.  The company has released a beta version of its Business Intelligence tools that are supposed to take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies. The tools, which support mashup and web collaboration concepts, have been released to advanced users so that they can play with the technology and provide feedback to be incorporated into production versions of the of the offerings. Word of the beta has gotten out and the some of the reviews have been less than glowing. Lavishing faint praise on the effort, Neil Raden, founder of the BI consulting company Hired Brains, reported on his blog that the effort showed "creative thinking," but little practical value. "I think these data mashup capabilities are entertaining, but I don't really see that they have any enduring value."  

For more on Business Object's Web 2.0 play:  
- check out InfoWorld's treatment of the story. Article