Contemporary Business Intelligence Tools
Olin Thompson & P.J. Jakovljevic - June 28, 2005

Contemporary BI Tools

Contemporary business intelligence (BI) solutions should enable business users to easily author, publish, and distribute enterprise reports via a fully integrated report writer, with an easy-to-use report-creation wizard. Users will also have the power to customize and tailor reports to specific information needs. Report writing and graphing capabilities should enable even non-technical users to easily create and share clear representations of complex business conditions. In addition to being easy to use, report writers must also incorporate advanced features like exception filtering and highlighting, calculations with sub-queries, rankings, drill-through, and more...