This past Friday I had the opportunity to attend my first Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT) meeting remotely with Lyzasoft (here’s a link to their free trial) as a presenter and was impressed overall. One of the things I really like about Lyzasoft specifically is their focus on social media and BI.  By taking analytics, collaboration, mashups, and the like, and putting it together, it enables BI to be used in a new way. As people start to become more dynamic in their use of computers at work, the need for BI to move from a highly structured analytical environment to something more interactive and fresh is what will differentiate innovative and useful tools/applications, from those that may become stale at some point.

Aside from being more forward looking in their approach to business intelligence overall, I think that Lyzasoft’s approach to BI and collaboration provides a view into the next generation of BI and what is needed to move analytics from a tool for super users to one for the masses.