Forrester: CIOs wrestle with too many enterprise BI tools

20.12.2008
More than 40% of enterprise IT decision makers said their companies are using three to five different business intelligence analysis and reporting tools, according to a survey released today by

More than one out of five of the 82 CIOs and IT managers polled by Forrester in August said they are running six or more BI tools.

That's despite BI consolidation efforts that for the past several years.

The survey results probably wouldn't surprise Steve Hirsch, chief data officer at Inc.

"From SAS to to Brio, we've got pretty much everything that's been released in the last five-10 years," he said.

One reason is the stock market operator's recent merger and acquisition history. NYSE Euronext was created out of the 216-year-old New York Stock Exchange's merger in 2005 and