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Vendor Landscape: Mid-Market BI
Enabling business users to make intelligent business decisions.
Last Revised: September 17, 2012
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Your Challenge
- Business Intelligence (BI) solutions have the potential to help organizations of all sizes glean valuable insights from otherwise nebulous data sets. Unstructured data from social sites can provide organizations with important insights, however harnessing and interpreting this data can be difficult task.
- Small and mid-sized organizations often lack resources for full-scale BI deployments. They require BI solutions with strong self-service reporting and analytics. Increasing importance is placed on automated processes, and intuitive interfaces.
- With a range of products available, small and mid-sized organizations must select the solution that best meets their needs and their budget.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- The ability to both access and work with reports on mobile devices is important to today’s mobile workforce. Vendors are now moving towards providing HTML5 for browsers access regardless of the device.
- Massive amounts of unstructured data exists on social sites. BI vendors are currently working towards making this information accessible for mid-market organizations. However, most solutions still lack the ability to provide insight and advice for interpretation of the data after captured.
- Cloud-based SaaS with local data sources is emerging as an affordable method for mid-market organizations. It enables the data to remain secure, but keeps software usage costs low.
- Understand what’s new in the BI market for small to mid-sized enterprises.
- Evaluate mid-market BI vendors and products for your enterprise needs using Info-Tech’s BI Vendor Landscape.
- Determine which products are most appropriate for your particular use case and scenario.
Get to Action
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Evaluate the leading solutions for mid-market BI
Understand the market and available options.
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Identify the mid-market BI solution that best meets your needs
Develop a shortlist to speed the selection process.
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Companies Who Helped
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