"We are still in a long process of consolidating," he said.

NYSE Euronext recently from and Netezza Inc. for internal analysis of trade execution performance.

Hirsch hopes to choose a BI tool to standardize on in 2009.

The survey also found BI becoming ubiquitous, with almost 60% of respondents saying they were deploying BI, data warehousing or data integration tools across their enterprises.

BI is also evolving beyond reporting only, according to Forrester, though only 27% of respondents said they were using it to try to gain a major competitive advantage.