Today, having the right information at your fingertip is essential and can affect the outcome of winning or losing to your competitors. The evolvement in business requirements has shifted from costing centric to better decision-making within the enterprise community. Business Intelligence is focused on improving the integration and delivery of information. Business Performance Management , on the other hand, provides an eagle-eye view of businesses. Today the landscape have changed to such a degree that vendors ranging from the pure plays, enterprise application vendors, database vendors and more, claim to have some form of BI or BPM – or both. The pressure is on the pure breed vendors as the source of business processes and intelligence resides in the hands of the large application vendors.

Ms Sharon Tan will share the major trends and developments that are shaping the dynamic landscape of the BI and BPM market in Malaysia and the region.

Technology made information instantly accessible, but it also increased its vulnerability. In addition to the risks from viruses, malicious worms and trojans, companies also have to deal with an increase of criminal activities and terrorism on the web; privacy violations, identity thefts, industrial theft and espionage. In addition to these risks, companies also have to deal with the regulatory compliance requirements. Software vendors are increasingly working more closely with each other to build formal, integrated "alliances." Alliances help individual companies focus on their strengths and build solutions that are more comprehensive, faster to implement, and more cost-effective for their customers. The bottom line: Alliances are popular because they are beneficial to customers.

This presentation will explore what you need to know, what you need to do, what will happen, and solutions for dealing with these security issues on both supply and demand side, and the impact of alliance among the software industry.