White paper brought to you by Birst 12/13/2010
Historically, business intelligence has promised a lot of "yes", but the reality has been filled with "No's". The promises are enormously compelling. Companies collect vast amounts of information about markets, customers, operations, and financial performance. Harnessing this information to drive better business results can have tremendous impact. Some corporations have achieved impressive gains after investing millions of dollars and multiple years of effort into building traditional analytical systems.
However, these success stories are frustratingly few and far between. Traditional BI, long the only option, can be prohibitively costly and complex. For companies without millions of dollars to invest, the options have been few and unattractive.
Further, even when these investments of time and resources can be made, they don’t guarantee success. For too many companies, BI doesn’t deliver on its promises-- it’s too costly, too complicated, and too difficult to scale and extend.
The end result is a reality in which only a small minority of employees have access to BI. According to Gartner, only 20% of employees use BI today. This falls far short of the potential transformative capabilities of BI throughout a company.
It’s time for BI that says YES. Yes to the requirements of your budget, business, and business users. Yes to fewer compromises.
This white paper first looks at the fundamental requirements that a BI solution should deliver to your company. Next, this whitepaper covers the 11 key questions that you should be asking of a future BI technology partner. When the BI provider can answer yet to all of these questions you have BI that is capable of fulfilling your analytical and reporting needs both today and over time- it is flexible powerful, and efficient. It is BI that says YES!
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