Panorama Business Intelligence

IDC predicts that the virtualization market will grow to $11.7B by 2011!!! I must admit I am quite new to this market but lately we have seen a great uptake of our Virtual appliance solution.

I wonder how big this will be for BI? we think (hope?) that this will be big. we are actually investing in it quite a lot.

For those of you reading about the Panorama virtual appliance for the first time, we basically pre-installed, pre-cofigured and optimized a Virtual server with our BI suite. The solution ships with sample data but using a very simple wizard you can just connect to any existing data source. So deploying a BI solution that includes everything from Analytics, reporting, dashboarding, scorecarding and visualization takes literally about 10 minutes if you have the ability to add the machine to your domain….

So far, most of the downloads we’ve seen are for people evaluating BI solutions and those looking to take advantage of the 10 free users in a local department deployment…. But some do ask questions that show clear signs of where virtualization is going.

For example, the director of BI of one of the big banks asked us if our virtual appliance was designed to be used in production, someone else complained that the version we shipped does not support clusters…. 

So stay tuned for a new version that will come soon that will support the above….

to download our current version go to http://www.panorama.com/challenge