A great business intelligence tool does not have to be complicated or expensive. If you want to do it right, you should strive for data democratization and look for a BI solution that is designed for business users with average technical skills. BI software that is meant to be used by your business users will allow for quick and accurate decisions, ensure that everyone is working with the right information.
When you choose a BI tool that is appropriate for your business users, you may be focused on ease-of-use and on Citizen Data Scientist and data democratization and data literacy initiatives but, don’t forget your analysts, data scientists and IT team members!
A business might wonder how to justify the implementation and cost of business intelligence tools when, in fact, it is more difficult to justify the decision NOT to implement a BI solution. A BI solution can provide targeted, concise information with which the business and business users can make fact-based decisions, and it can provide insight into trends and patterns that will help to dictate new product and service decisions, pricing decisions, staffing and training decisions and more.
If your business wants to democratize data and provide access to business intelligence tools to satisfy the needs of every business user, you may want to engage a business intelligence consultant to help you better understand your requirements for data and systems integration and to plan a simple, straightforward implementation and training schedule that will get you where you want to go, quickly and easily.
Today’s business enterprise does not want to settle. If you plan to implement or upgrade your business intelligence solution, you would understandably expect to be able to use the other solutions your business users depend upon. Best-of-breed or enterprise solutions like Tally® for accounting and financial management, or SAP or Navision for enterprise-wide management are just such examples of software and solutions you would want to integrate and include in business intelligence and advanced analytics.
Self-serve business intelligence tools are no longer new. Nearly every BI tool vendor has an offering in the market. But, not every business intelligence tool is equally useful.
