Gartner: 14 key points to evaluate BI platforms

Overview

Business intelligence platforms enable all types of users - from IT staff to consultants to business users - to build applications that help organisations learn about and understand their business. Gartner defines a BI platform as a software platform that delivers the 14 capabilities listed below. These capabilities are organised into three categories of functionality: integration, information delivery and analysis. Information delivery is the core focus of most BI projects today, but we are seeing an increased interest in deployments of analysis to discover new insights, and in integration to implement those insights.