This tool allows enterprises to profile their Business Intelligence (BI) requirements and generate a rank-ordered vendor shortlist from a fixed list of vendors. Vendor profiles are based on Info-Tech’s review of the BI market. The tool includes the following specific aspects of analysis:
- Variable prioritization for product suitability based on the following factors:
- Advanced features including enhanced capabilities for collaboration, predictive and social analytics, data visualization, mobile applications, master data management, and data quality.
- Product usability.
- Product architecture.
- Relative cost.
- Variable prioritization for vendor suitability based on the following factors:
- Vendor viability.
- Vendor focus on BI and on the enterprise market.
- Breadth of the vendor support organization.
- Size and strength of the channel.
- Weightings to adjust the contribution of various suitability factors to the overall vendor ranking for user’s preference.
- A self-sorted ranking list of BI vendors. The ranking is based on user input.
Narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy your organization’s requirements before sending RFPs and scheduling vendor demonstrations to ensure you select the best solution.
