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About Business Intelligence Software
Business intelligence (BI) is a decision support tool used to capture, report, and analyze a subset of organizational data without affecting operational systems. The software provides essential business visibility to help clients' businesses grow by giving them the information they need about product, sales, and customer behavior. It allows clients to look at their businesses in different ways, and helps them to understand the core issues so they can take action to improve performance.
TEC can help you find the best BI and business performance
management (BPM) solution based on your business needs.
Key Business Intelligence Features
- Facilitate corporate decision making initiatives
- Meet compliance and governance standards (i.e. SOX, HIPAA)
- Align business processes with information systems
- Maximize sales and customer service initiatives
- Attain return on investment (ROI) on planning initiatives (i.e., product distribution)
Differences between BI and BPM
Business
Intelligence (BI) |
Business
Performance Management (BPM) |
Appeals to operations users and
line-of-business (LOB) managers
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Appeals to financial applications
users
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Embeds metrics analysis within
internal processes to help users make timely business
decisions, and to enable strategic or tactical planning
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Focuses on defined metrics to help
users improve processes, and manage and increase
performance
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Provides data needed to answer
essential business issues and to plan and act based on
the analysis of business problems |
Uses scorecarding and dashboarding to
measure organizational metrics and to help organizations
manage performance |
About Microsoft Business ProClarity
ProClarity gives analysts and business professionals a simple, powerful and adaptable interface to insight, building on the power of the Microsoft business intelligence platform. ProClarity empowers users with the ability to monitor business performance, visualize and explore multi-dimensional data, understand root cause and effect relationships, and share definitions and analysis best practices to make consistently better decisions.
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