Business Intelligence Tools are Now Available for Small Businesses

Business intelligence tools are becoming a popular source of allowing “Big Data” style analytics in a nice manageable bite size source for small businesses. Business intelligence tools (BI) were designed to allow data to be shared in more graphical forms, eliminating the cumbersome and often incorrect excel spreadsheet or tricky PowerPoint updates. They are relatively painless to install and after a short window of learning, the user can build nearly any widget it wants. With the click of a button you can see trends and charts without the need to have custom baked or extremely expensive software to manage the process. If you are a business in need of this kind of intelligence more readily available without having to use antiquated report building software, take a minute and see if a BI tool would be of benefit. Microsoft introduced its Power BI tool about 5 years ago and it has evolved 10X since its release. It’s an inexpensive subscription-based platform and plays nice with most systems given its flexible API. MG business consulting can assist you also, should you find yourself in the market for this game changing tool. 

 

Authored by: Jasen McDaniel – MG Business Consultant