Recently I just posted an article on BeyeNETWORK, entitled Connecting Visibility to Value: Data Integration and Business Intelligence. The article summarizes five important factors that are critical for Business Intelligence platforms:
- Optimized data movement
- Data quality
- Real-time and consistent data
- Next generation interoperability with BI systems
- Actionable BI
Why are these factors critical? Check out the article for more, but here's a small teaser for you:
The strongest BI offerings embed versatile data integration solutions that increase the value of the information delivered to the business user. Optimizing data integration within a BI solution delivers consolidation across complex applications, clean and consistent data, real-time data access and actionable BI. Data integration and business intelligence are essential technologies to support enterprise-wide performance management, leveraging operational data to create smart, agile and aligned organizations that are achieving management excellence.
