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Business Intelligence tools help manage and process unstructured data to identify and understand market trends and increase revenues. The right BI and analytics tools can help you understand the market better and grow your business. To know how the select the right BI infrastructure for your business, read here. https://bit.ly/3J1Mlmo


Strategy to Select BI Tools for Your Organization

  • Visual Presentation Functionality: The tool that helps create data visualizations must support a variety of user types. It also must allow for the level of customization and flexibility that supports business objectives and the requirements of the various functional groups in the organization. The business intelligence reporting tool is the face of the business. Hence struggling with dashboards that are difficult to create or to understand or feature poor-quality visuals will deter users from embracing and working with the tool.
  • Integration: While a standalone solution can only be accessed and viewed in its application; an integrated solution can be accessed and viewed through various pre-existing applications, websites, and services within the business. Integration puts the benefits of BI directly into a service that business users already use and are familiar with.
  • Customizability: The BI vendor must be able to build a solution that fits every business’ data requirement. The solution needs to be flexible to accommodate future needs and changes in objectives. By and large, most businesses will need a custom set-up –one that can integrate flawlessly into their operations and grow as they grow. Business users on the other hand can be very particular about how they consume their data, thereby making customization and extensibility critical factors that influence the purchase of a BI tool/vendor.
  • Mobility: Mobility features are crucial to factor in for businesses that function with off-site workers, board members, or stakeholders who need access to company data to be effective and informed. It is therefore important to assess what is expected out of the mobile BI application. The kind of features needed on the go and whatever else that is needed to ensure the success of working with one.
  • Easy Adoption & Training: Product training is a necessary investment to reap the full benefits of any BI solution. BI can radically change businesses for the better, provided time is taken to give quality and flexible training to users on the BI product. Now, this must be assured by the BI vendor or the business must seek to expand resources for this training to be accommodated.
  • Pricing: There are three major things to consider such as subscriptions, growth, and hidden fees. It is also important to understand and obtain complete details of quarterly or yearly subscriptions on top of any upfront costs. Evaluate scaling up solutions with a flexible pricing model, additional fees that aren’t listed in the pricing model, but are necessary for full implementation upfront to avoid any surprises in the future.
  • IT Support: A self-service BI tool allows business users an easy BI experience; freeing up IT resources to focus on other tasks. What is ideal with self-service capabilities is that it still allows for IT to easily control the deployment and prevent user chaos later. This said it is necessary to ensure that the vendor also has a fully capable support team to accommodate any issues or questions technical users may have. Narrowing down on an expert, flexible vendor who can provide solutions customized to the organization’s needs or problems will make a difference to any organization’s entire BI experience.


As a global SAP partner, Gemini Consulting and Services can help you make better, faster and data-driven decisions using BI tools. Contact us to know the advantages of SAC and customize it to meet your business requirements.

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