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Download the business intelligence software product directory
This interactive product directory is a great resource for business intelligence vendor and product information. Whether you're just beginning the BI software evaluation process or looking to upgrade your BI system, you'll find valuable information about on-premise and on-demand BI software from a variety of vendors in the BI market.
Check out all of our data management product directories in the SearchDataManagement.com Product Directory Library.
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Submit a product to the SearchDataManagement.com product directory Is there a great product out there that you feel we should include in our directory? Submit a product and we'll consider it for the next edition of our product directory. Already have a listing in one of our directories that you'd like to update? Send us an email. We're planning to launch a product directory every year for each of the following markets:
Selecting the best business intelligence tools for your business By William McKnight, Partner, President at McKnight Consulting Group
Historically, BI has meant whatever we do to data in our post-operational data warehouses. That is not entirely true anymore. BI is done everywhere—in our operational environments, such as ERP, supply chain and call center systems, as well as data warehouses and other post-operational analytical structures. BI, of course, needs data to be viable, and sometimes that means setting up additional data stores with data in a prepared state for the access. Sometimes there is a data store where BI access is needed, and sometimes that store needs to be built. However, data access is the layer in the data architecture that BI addresses. If the plumbing is robust but the presentation layer is lacking, all is lost. This guide will look at business intelligence vendors and methods. There is no best or one-size-fits-all tool on the market.Multiple BI tools will be trained on any viable data store over the course of time. It's an evolutionary progression, and there is no method of data access that is necessarily a "first port of call" for BI. Perhaps no technology term has been as overused as BI, so it is essential to dive much deeper than the label and figure out which tools you really need in your organization. Selecting the right BI tool should start with requirements-gathering from those accessing data. These "users" need a BI tool like a hole in the head. What they need is data access through the right mechanism (reports, alerts, visualization, interaction, etc.). Dust is collecting on unused BI tools ("shelfware") the world over, while frustrated users live with what is "good enough." The end result is that Microsoft Excel is the most common BI tool. This is problematic. Ideally, the requirements-gathering process begins not with "what do you want to see?" but with "what are your business goals?" Together, the BI expert and the user can then explore the robust possibilities that today's BI market offers.
Business requirements gathering
Read the rest of William's column by downloading the business intelligence product directory.
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