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 CALUMO

 COA Solutions

 Crimson Systems

 DataFlux

 IBM

 Infor

 Kalido

 Rinedata

 Swift Computing

 Tagetik

 Teradata

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Peter Thomas assesses the real value – or otherwise – of technology in BI projects.

Playing the BI blame game - Part 1 | Part 2

Peter Thomas

The proverb “A bad workman blames his tools” is one which has a degree of history to it. Indeed its lineage has been traced to 13th century France as in: mauvés ovriers ne trovera ja bon hostill (les mauvais ouvriers ne trouveront jamais un bon outil being a rendition in more contemporary French). To me this timeless observation is applicable to present-day business intelligence projects.

Browsing through internet forums, it is all too typical to see discussions that start, “What is the best BI software available on the market?”, “Who are the leaders in SaaS BI?” and (rather poignantly in my opinion), “Please help me to pick the best technology for my dashboard”.

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