Business Intelliegnce Tools
Right now, lots of Business Intelligence implementers and analysts are trying to choose right tools for their BI implementations. According to Forrester Research , business intelligence is “a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making.” 12 Under this definition, business intelligence encompasses information management ( data integration , data quality , data warehousing, master-data management, text- and content-analytics, et al.). Therefore, Forrester refers to data preparation and data usage as two separate but closely linked segments of the business-intelligence architectural stack.
Business Intelligence tools work well and have been used to great effect by lean and fit organisations, those that have a sense of purpose and vision, that have a culture of analysing problems and doing something about them and that are prepared to invest, not just the money, …