Chapter 7 - Business intelligence tools and vendors. This chapter presents the following content: Relationship with capabilities and solutions, customization and standardization, types of vendors, BI vendors, type basis, type classifications. | Chapter 7: Business Intelligence Tools and Vendors Outline BI tools Relationship with capabilities and solutions Customization and standardization BI vendors Types of vendors Outline BI vendors Type basis Ability to execute (ATE) Completeness of vision (COV) Type classifications Leaders Challengers Visionaries Niche Players Business Intelligence Tools? Application software which enables BI Facilitates access, analysis of data and presentation of results Complement traditional ITs (DW, data mining, transaction processing systems) to enable 4 BI capabilities Business Intelligence Tools Differ from BI Capabilities BI capabilities Organizational memory Information integration Insight creation Presentation Business Intelligence Tools Differ from BI Solutions BI solutions Utilize BI tools acquired by an organization Draw upon existing data from traditional ITs, and other information to support the BI process by delivering information and knowledge to facilitate decision-making The four BI . | Chapter 7: Business Intelligence Tools and Vendors Outline BI tools Relationship with capabilities and solutions Customization and standardization BI vendors Types of vendors Outline BI vendors Type basis Ability to execute (ATE) Completeness of vision (COV) Type classifications Leaders Challengers Visionaries Niche Players Business Intelligence Tools? Application software which enables BI Facilitates access, analysis of data and presentation of results Complement traditional ITs (DW, data mining, transaction processing systems) to enable 4 BI capabilities Business Intelligence Tools Differ from BI Capabilities BI capabilities Organizational memory Information integration Insight creation Presentation Business Intelligence Tools Differ from BI Solutions BI solutions Utilize BI tools acquired by an organization Draw upon existing data from traditional ITs, and other information to support the BI process by delivering information and knowledge to facilitate decision-making The four BI capabilities come together in BI solutions Figure : BI Tools in Relation to BI Capabilities, Solution, Product, and Process BI Solution Data and Information (External & Internal; Structured & Unstructured) BI Process Information (that leads to knowledge and/or enables decision making) BI Product BI Tools Other Technologies (., Data Warehouse, Data Mining) BI Capabilities Organizational Memory Information Integration Insight Creation Presentation © Sabhewal & Becerra-Fernandez Figure : A Variety of BI Tool and Technologies Data Warehousing Enterprise Resource Planning systems Knowledge Repositories Digital Content Management tools Document Management tools Business Analytics tools Data Mining Real-time Decision Support tools BPM tools Scorecarding tools Digital Dashboards Visualization tools OLAP tools RFID Environmental Scanning Web Mining tools Text Mining tools © Sabhewal & Becerra-Fernandez BI Tools Classified into Categories Reporting, data mining, OLAP (Baars and Kemper) .
