Chapter 12The Right BI Tool for the Right User
It was 1994, the early days of the BI market, and the Dow BI tool selection process was contentious from the start. One of the main justifications for the Global Reporting Project was to reduce the cost of multiple regional homegrown systems. We had a “buy not build” strategy and agreed to be “leading edge, not bleeding edge.” And yet, everything about BI and data warehousing in the early 1990s was bleeding edge. The market was highly fragmented, with no clear market leader and solutions mainly from start-ups. The current market for big data analytic tools is reminiscent of those early years in BI.
Within the Global Reporting Project, we formed a BI tool selection team that was charged with gathering ...
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