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What feature(s) of a BI system do you use the most?
For my company, I know that we could not go back to business as usual without our BI system. The UI and reporting features of our system are something we could not do without. What feature of your BI system do you use the most?
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My take is few small and medium businesses are doing much with BI at the moment; it has been largely a large enterprise technology. Oracle and SAP have had success with BI tools for their enterprise apps, but nothing similar has emerged in the SMB space. The process of collecting and cleansing the data has been best left to larger enterprises. For many small businesses, it is difficult to identify what data they want to collect and it has been too difficult to build applications so end users (who are not computer technicians) can work with it. Microsoft has been slogging along in this space for many years without much to show for it. The vendor now is trying to push adoption via SharePoint 2010 and PivotPoint. The jury is still out on how much success the company will have with these tools.
We use the Google Analytics Connector in our BI software Bime the most. It's the most useful thing the BI solution provides - we can connect directly to our GA data, no time wasted aggregating profiles of our different sites, or exporting data to excel or csv files. Gives us unparalled insight into our website data, helping us identify market opportunities and work out any areas that need to be worked on. So to reiterate, it would really be both the analysis and the reporting features, as the analysis helps us obtain the information whereas the reporting and publishing features help us communicate it to the important parties.
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