Project Mobius

Larger companies may want to buy a feature specific list of business intelligence software for each department. This allows the manager to focus on data pertaining to their department. If your goal is to monitor operating costs, you should choose a program that is tailored to produce operational reports. On the other hand, the marketing department could benefit from programs designed to provide up-to-date intelligence reports for the consumer. To provide the best data management tools for each department to maximize the efficiency of the entire company.

When you are running a business, you can never escape crisis and risks because these two will always be a part of everyone?€™s lifestyle. Even in our daily life, we face such and there is a need for us to come up with a decision that will serve as the solution for the current problem. [...]

Given the recent budget cuts in our company, we have now had to reduce the workforce in our IT department and transition from a traditional business intelligence platform to a more light weight solution such as SaaS BI. In our search for a cost effective business intelligence solution on the cloud, we came across a few different companies such as Jaspersoft, Pentaho and Actuate. I analyzed all three companies based on their ease of use and cost effectiveness. One thing that stood out about Actuate was the amount of useful information on their website about SaaS business intelligence. They let developers and users upload BIRT content to a fully hosted SaaS BI environment. I was very excited about their product offerings and decided to download the free trial version of their software. Even though, I am quite familiar with business intelligence reporting tools the platform seems very easy to use. Before I make any final decisions I will keep playing with the software and also try out the other open source competitor’s offerings. Hopefully I will be able to make a decision soon.