Steps to know before buying any BI solutions

Every industry is unique and has its own share of complexities and challenges. Their customers are unique, they have different marketing methods, they have different services and products, different budgets and goals. Thus the data being generated by every industry is unique. This data consists the jewels of information pertaining to various business processes and customers and is available in abundance in every sector. We live in the era of petabytes and Exabyte of data and enormous amount of data is created everyday. 1) What kind of data do I have and what do I want to analyze? These seem to be two different questions however they need to be answered as one because without answering one your business intelligence project can fail. It’s a good practice to do data profiling before starting the BI project. It is advisable to have data cleaned and arranged as any shortfall in data can lead to incorrect information thus jeopardizing the whole BI effort. A smart business intell...