The BI Survey 9 - Fieldwork Closes on Sunday

[Fieldwork for the BI Survey 9, an independent survey of BI customers and partners, closes its fieldwork on Sunday 31st January. It's important that we get a suitable number of Essbase, OBIEE, OLAP and Discoverer users completing the survey, so please visit the site and fill it in if you've not done so already. Thanks - MR]

"The BI Survey 9: The Customer Verdict

We would very much welcome your participation in 'The BI Survey 9: The Customer Verdict', the world's largest survey of business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) users (formerly known as The OLAP Survey).

As a participant, you will:

Receive a summary of the results from the full survey
Be entered into a draw to win one of ten $50 Amazon vouchers
Ensure that your experiences are included in the final analyses

To take part in the survey on-line, visit: http://digiumenterprise.com/answer?link=270-5J9MMB9M BARC's annual survey obtains input from a large number of organizations in order to better understand their buying decisions, the implementation cycle and the business benefits achieved.

Both business and technical users, as well as vendors and consultants, are welcome to participate. If you are answering as a consultant, please answer the questions (including the demographic questions) from your client's perspective; we will ask you separately about your own firm.

The BI Survey has always adopted a vendor-independent stance. While vendors assist by inviting users to participate in the Survey, Business Application Research Center (BARC) - the publisher - does not accept vendor sponsorship of the Survey, and the results are analyzed and published without any vendor involvement.

You will be able to answer questions on your usage of a BI product from any vendor. Your answers will only be used anonymously, and your personal details will never be passed on to vendors or other third parties.

The survey should take about 15-20 minutes to complete

BARC (Business Application Research Center) is a leading independent software industry analyst specializing in Data Management and Business Intelligence. For more information on BARC please visit The BARC website, www.bi-survey.com and www.BI-Verdict.com"