The consulting company IDC holds several events, throughout the world, where analysts and technology vendors provide hints and perspective on their products and their markets.

The Business Intelligence Conference 2008, which took place in Paris belongs to that category.

• IDC confirmed the several facts that every software vendor in the BI arena already knows:
  Business Intelligence and security are the two software domains with the largest growth over the last five years. BI represents as much as 6.5% of the total software investment, which represents approximately 560m€ in 2008.
• BI has a very low level of adoption. Among companies larger than 1K employees, the average total of BI solution users is approximately 50. IDC envisions a rapid increase, by a factor 5 to 6.
• Several companies have more than  different BI solutions, with little or no integration, mostly due to isolated initiatives from finance or sales organizations. IT has a major role to play in order to integrate, rationalize and support enterprise wide solutions
• The three major challenges IT organizations will have to address are: 1/ manage data explosion and increase of the number of users 2/ guaranty data coherence and quality, #1 condition to real-time BI 3/ harness data reuse and manage duplication of information 

This visions was confirmed by reps from major BI solution vendors like Cognos, Business Objects and SAS (strangely Oracle, Microsoft, Terradata were missing). They all agree that the recent consolidation trend (BO acquired by SAP, Cognos by IBM) will lead to a very simple market segmentation:

• Mass reporting BI with Office automation and integration: this is where the all position Microsoft or the recent open source new entrants 
• Industry oriented solutions, with predefined schemas, and dashboards, highly customizable by the customers

“Turning data into information” has always been Business Intelligence’s main mission. This is where Ekoz plays a major role.

EKOZ develops a universal computing technology that is insensitive to volume and to combinatory, rooted in the revolutionary mathematical model designed by its founder. Based on a genuine representation of information, EKOZ’s technology is offered as a library of computing and data management functions. This new technology is bound to become a software platform for most of existing technologies and will foster quantum leaps in information technology, research and industry.

EKOZ develops a universal computing technology that is insensitive to the volume and to the combinative complexity, rooted in the revolutionary mathematical model conceived by its founder Ouzi Koskas.

Based on a revolutionary representation of data, EKOZ technology is offered as a library of computing and data management functions. By reducing the Cartesian product of tables to a mere sum, it enables machines with a modest processing power, to operate on very large volumes of data and to find in a split second – and without any prior tuning – solutions that so far, required minutes, or even hours of very powerful and expensive resources. Furthermore, EKOZ’ technology makes it possible to find the answers to complex problems that so far, were considered impossible to solve in polynomial time.

This new environment is bound to become a universal development platform and will prompt quantum leaps in the evolution of information technology, as well as in the scientific research and in the industry.