BI for the Great Unwashed

Makers of business intelligence software are dreaming of a day when their products will run on every desktop. But will this ever come to pass? Quocirca’s Louella Fernandes explains.

The ultimate goal of business intelligence is to drive better business performance through providing the right data at the right time. However, implementing a business intelligence (BI) platform can be costly and complex to use and deploy. Traditional BI solutions are often only used by a small proportion of users – the analysts and power users – and even then, the tools can be difficult to use.

With Office 2007, Microsoft aims to address the unrealised potential use of BI in an organisation by applying its low-cost, high-volume approach to the market. But whilst Microsoft may indeed increase the awareness of BI tools, achieving mainstream BI adoption still faces many challenges.

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