Business Intelligence was ranked as the top CIO priority in the "Gartner CIO Agenda 2007 – Top CIO Priorities" survey.  IDC predicts a US$670 million BI and BPM market in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) by 2010 and expects the market to remain on the fast growth track with a 5-year CAGR of 12.9%.  In 2007,the top three independent Business Intelligence software vendors were acquired by the top three software giants in the world.  "Competing on Analytics", one of the best selling business books in 2007 written by Thomas Davenport and published by Harvard Business School, had gained great attention from millions of business executives around the world on how strategic and critical Business Intelligence and Analytics is in today's global competition.  All these facts are telling us that Business Intelligence has been evolved into a mainstream technology as well as a critical business strategy.