2. As pressure increases for businesses of all sizes to leverage business intelligence (BI) for competitive advantage, there is a demand for new types of solutions to address the variety of business needs. As a result, a paradigm shift is emerging that opens up new approaches to the delivery and customization of BI solutions. =
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4. The old world approach What’s your industry? Pick your BI Tool!
5. For example, a BI solution typically required the development of a data warehouse using an RDBMS, and on top of that, applications were developed using BI tools and SQL. This thick layer of application development adds substantially to the cost of any solution developed this way, and makes the deployment cycle long and the risk of project failure quite high.
6. It’s not the just the license cost, it is the resources that cost a lot too!