How will business intelligence tools help companies, especially telcos, with terabytes of transactional information? Will Microsoft`s recent moves on the BI front hurt or help the existing vendors? Present at a Brainstorm  round table discussion to give their answers to these and other questions were: Caron Mooney of IS Partners; Marc Scheepbouwer, MD of Intellient; Adrian van der Merwe, MD of 8th Man Consulting; Richard Greyling, managing consultant at Knowledge Integration Dynamics; Carlo Gunter, COO of e.com Institute; Nitesh Vallabh, director at PBT; Dillon Gray, channel manager of Business Objects; John Olsson, sales and marketing director at Ability Solutions; Filip Vanden Houte of MCI Consultants; Greg Bogiages, director of Cortell; Estelle de Beer of BI Practice at Sybase; Erwin Bisschops, senior solutions architect at Harvey Jones; and Christo Bredenkamp of Synergy Computing.

Brainstorm: How will BI tools help telco providers move towards transactional-based revenue rather than the current access models?