How businesses access their data continues to change dramatically.  With technology ever-present, it's imperative for companies to have quick, efficient, insightful business intelligence, also known as BI.  But choosing the tools to help navigate that can be a daunting task.

Growth is just one aspect of the changing business intelligence market: More data means billions and billions of dollars in global revenue in the BI market.  There are a couple of different ways that BI is structured; some is based on historic workflows, while others fully integrate a more advanced view of platforms.  Which you choose depends on a number of factors, including your goals.  If you don't know what you want to get out of your BI, then you can't know how to manage it.  You also need to understand how that BI can integrate with your existing workflow and other data sources.  Who uses the data is also an important element in the BI equation.

What else should you consider, and how can you compare BI software tools? This graphic can help.

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