BI Platforms User Survey: How Customers Rate Their BI Platform's Functionality

A Gartner Research Report

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This document details organizations' perceptions of the relative strengths of their installed business intelligence (BI) platform functionality, based on the results of a survey conducted as part of Gartner's research for "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008." It will help evaluators match their requirements to the relative profiles of available BI platforms.

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Gartner categorizes the 12 BI platform capabilities into three areas of functionality: information delivery, integration and analysis. Information delivery has been the historic core focus of most BI projects, but we see an increasing need to focus more on analysis to discover new insights, and on integration to implement those insights.