This IDC study examines business intelligence (BI) adoption and buying intention for the Canadian public sector market. The analysis is supported by an ongoing effort to collect and interpret information to provide valuable insight, prediction and prescription for technology vendors targeting the Canadian public sector market.

The investment outlook for BI solutions in the Canadian public sector is positive. BI adoption is driven by need of enhancing their service delivery capabilities and efficiency and transparency of internal management practices. However software and service vendors must differentiate their approach to take advantage of the growing investment in BI.

"Public sector executives plan to rely on internal IT to design and deploy their BI systems. Software and IT service vendors must verticalize their solution offering and go-to-market strategies to gain a higher share of wallet out of public sector BI investments." Says Massimiliano Claps, Senior Analyst, IDC Canada Customer Segments.