| Budgets and resources for improving or implementing | | | | Microsoft Dynamics or other. |
| a better business intelligence system are tight and will | | | | It should include the back-end (data warehouse),a |
| be tight for a while despite some signs of an economy | | | | modern zero foot print, web based analytics system |
| recovery. | | | | and pre-packaged business solutions to enable you to |
| On the other hand, senior management and operational | | | | implement one reporting solution (e.g. sales analysis) |
| manager need better and faster information, | | | | within days and not weeks or months. |
| preferably with a web based (true zero foot print) | | | | You may not get this from the Tier 1 business |
| analytics and reporting system, particularly for sales | | | | intelligence players, as their goal is to sell you as many |
| reporting and sales analysis. | | | | services as possible, some of them are even heavily |
| So, should you be faced with one or more of the | | | | subsidizing their license fees or even gave the license |
| following challenges: | | | | away for free. DO NOT fall into this trap, you will pay |
| - Your management is asking for better and faster | | | | later bitterly for services and maintenance. |
| sales reporting. | | | | Go for medium sized BI vendors who know your |
| - You want to have better control of your profit | | | | ERP-system and can provide real value for your |
| margins. | | | | money. To be on the safe side, ask them for a free |
| - Your existing reporting solution is too static and is | | | | POC (Proof of Concept) with your own data. |
| missing the flexibility you and your users are looking for. | | | | You can get a brilliant BI system like BDA which can |
| - You would like to introduce web based business | | | | be implemented in less than one week for under |
| intelligence and analytics but you do not have the | | | | $50,000, so do not spend too much money, only |
| resources and the budget. | | | | because your hardware/data-base provider tries to |
| - The TOC (total cost of ownership) of your existing | | | | sell you their BI-system. |
| business intelligence or reporting system is too high as | | | | BDA includes a modern SQL-Server based data |
| you need a lot of external and internal resources to | | | | warehouse, pre-packaged business applications for a |
| maintain the system? | | | | variety of ERP modules like sales, financials, inventory |
| The only way to successfully beat these challenges is | | | | etc. and a great analysis front-end tool with unlimited |
| to look for a business intelligence solution which | | | | amount of users with a price point under $50,000 |
| provides out of the box business applications for your | | | | inclusive the implementation of one module like sales |
| specific ERP system like JD Edwards, SAP, BPCS, | | | | analysis. |