As Valerie Logan of HP Services noted in a white paper titled Top 10 Trends in Business Intelligence for 2008, more companies want "to widely distribute BI insights via analytics to mission-critical applications. Few companies have explored the myriad opportunities - from preventing identity fraud to improving supply chain efficiency - available by fully embracing operational BI." As they look for the right tools to do this, she says, scalability and reliability will be key considerations in any BI tool.
Footnotes: From "View from the TreeTop" Volume 3 Issue 1 January 2009
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