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Difficult Times
Posted 2nd February 2009 at 09:00 AM by Steve Bennett
Updated 2nd February 2009 at 09:03 AM by Steve Bennett
Updated 2nd February 2009 at 09:03 AM by Steve Bennett
January is now behind us and I'd like to think that the summer holidays are all behind us (read: all our New Year resolutions are broken and we can get back to behaving normally).
So now's the time to take stock of the state of the local Analytic market. There is a palpable climate of fear out in the job market, but I still believe that the demand for good BI and Analytics people goes on. Am I deluding myself? Well, we're analysts right?! So what is the evidence?
First: I came across an interesting table of redundancies on ZDnet Australia's site. The whole article is here. It reports the following ICT redundancies:
(Company How many Date)
So now's the time to take stock of the state of the local Analytic market. There is a palpable climate of fear out in the job market, but I still believe that the demand for good BI and Analytics people goes on. Am I deluding myself? Well, we're analysts right?! So what is the evidence?
First: I came across an interesting table of redundancies on ZDnet Australia's site. The whole article is here. It reports the following ICT redundancies:
(Company How many Date)
- eBay 18 07/10/2008
- HP/EDS 450 Three-year plan
- Optus 115 20/10/2008
- Cellnet Undisclosed 31/10/2008
- UXC 12 04/11/2008
- KAZ (Telstra) 100 24/09/2008
- Telstra 800 18/09/2008
- Elders 40 06/08/2008
- Engin Undisclosed 05/08/2008
- Freshtel Undisclosed 29/08/2008
- Commander Undisclosed Ongoing
- Optima Undisclosed 23/10/2008
- Yahoo!7 About 10 18/08/2008
- National Australia Bank 443 Ongoing
- PacNet 22 14/11/08
- Alphawest 33 01/12/08
- Ericsson 300 02/12/08
- IBM Unclear 02/12/08
- 3 Mobile Unclear 02/12/08
- Integ (UXC division) 6 04/12/08
- Goldman Sachs JBWere About a dozen 03/12/08
- ANZ Bank Unknown 08/12/08
- Dialog Unknown 09/12/08
- Oakton Single digit % 11/12/08
- Websense 25 03/12/08
- Logica Unknown 15/12/08
- Lenovo Unknown 08/01/09
- Vodafone NZ About 20 15/01/09
- Nokia Siemens Networks Less than 15 16/01/09
- AMD Unknown 19/01/09
- Microsoft 1 23/01/09
- Citrix Unknown 29/01/09
- Westpac
- AMP
- Pfizer
- ING
- Bupa
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BI Skill Shortage?
Just published in today's Australian IT. Maybe there's hope for us all?!
Quote:BI skills shortage persists
Jennifer Foreshew | February 24, 2009
THE slowdown in the economy may have eased IT skills shortages across the country, but a continuing shortage of business intelligence specialists could result in flawed projects, says analyst Gartner.
Speaking ahead of Gartner's BI and Information Management Summit starting in Sydney today, Ian Bertram said the promised outcomes of BI could be limited by skills shortages.
"There are some skills out there that people require in these roles and they are not just technical skills," said Mr Bertram, who is Gartner's global BI research team manager and chair of the summit.
"Those business and management skills are driving these projects internally."
"Globally there has been a very high demand for BI skills and there are not enough people with them," he said.
The BI concept was to use information to make better decisions in an organisation. It could be applied to business activity monitoring, fraud detection and procurement processes.
"If BI is managed correctly - if you have a process to manage it, govern it and get rid of crap in the organisation - it is more likely to be successful."
Andrew Cross, managing director of recruitment company Ambition Technology, said: "There will be continued demand for business intelligence professionals, particularly people who can identify how to streamline a business and get more productivity or profitability from resources."
Despite the downturn, Taylor Coulter director Trevor Taylor said, there would be increased investment in information management tools and systems.Posted 24th February 2009 at 09:47 PM by JohnG
