Best of Breed is good for Business Intelligence, Modelling
Back to the Future in IT!
There is a solid back to basics approach in IT striking a cord at the moment marking a return to the best of breed technologies connecting up IT systems again. As the Information directors or Chief Information Officers and Heads of Finance wrestle to get IT performance and expenditures under control value is the name of the day.
-Gap Between Excel and BI
Best of Breed in Business intelligence, Qlikview, Cognos.
You might have ORACLE, COGNOS, and SAP at the core of the systems but Gartner reports that IT Directors (CIO’s) are working with business analysts to unearth the data, report it more effectively while reducing costs. This is giving new specialised vendors a leg up into high end corporate IT marketplace previously closed off to them. Sure there is a continuing strong dependence on the core ERP vendors such as SAP and Oracle.
Tableau Business Intelligence is a new provider benefitting from Best of Breed.
The new guys are getting a chance and this includes Qlikview,
Tableau, Tibco in Business intelligence even Crystal Reports. Others getting a look in are CRM players such as Salesforce, SAGE and Microsoft CRM as well.
For example business analysts and Financial Planning Analysts who need to mine data from the ERP Systems, company data warehouses are considering Tibco Software, Qlikview in conjunction with Adaptive Planning Solutions or Quantrix Financial modelling.
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Financial Analysts, Business Analysts & the end users are winning
Really winning not like Charlie Sheen. Business Intelligence Executives, financial analysts are building excellent business intelligence dashboards, financial modelling, business modelling, and scenario testing models. All based on software from suppliers such as Qlikview,
Tableau or Tibco Software. And saving a few bucks along the way the few might even strech into tens of millions.