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Vendor Landscape: Mid-market BI
BI for the masses.
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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.
- Small and mid-sized organizations often lack the necessary personnel and resources for full scale BI deployments, placing increased importance on automated processes and easy-to-use, intuitive interfaces that support self-service reporting and analysis.
- With a wide variety of products to choose from, small and mid-sized organizations must decide which offering will best facilitate insight-driven decisions without representing a prohibitively expensive cost of doing business.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- While pure-play and SaaS vendors are aggressively targeting the mid-market, Microsoft’s ubiquity in enterprises of all sizes combined with a solid product line-up make it a compelling choice to fill the BI void in a small to mid-sized organization.
- Many other vendors in the space deliver exceptionally well in some basic areas like data visualization and data management, while others focus on a low price-point and low-friction integration. Carefully assess the value of each aspect of a solution to the organization and don’t be drawn in by nonessential features.
- Where basic features do not offer enough distinction amongst solution candidates, look to advanced features that are critical to your specific use case such as collaboration or predictive modeling.
- Understand what’s new in mid-market BI.
- Evaluate BI vendors and products for your organization’s needs.
- Determine which vendors and products are most appropriate for particular use cases and scenarios.
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Evaluate mid-market BI vendors and available solutions
Understand the BI market, the players, and their products.
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Identify the solutions that best fit the organization's needs
Develop a customized shortlist to speed solution selection.
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