Overview

Why Business Intelligence. Data is the lifeblood of many applications. Your customers increasingly expect to view application data in robust, interactive reports and dashboards. They want deeper insight to the activities driving performance and outcomes.

Embedded BI. Organizations are eager to harness the power of their data assets by developing data-rich applications for their employees, customers, and partners. This often involves embedding reports, dashboards, and visualizations into the business applications that people inside and outside the organization use every day.

Did you know that about 76% of independent software vendors incorporate reporting or analysis functionality into their applications and almost 48% of corporate developers do as well?

Are you facing the tough choice of either building BI functionality from scratch or embed it within your application or both? Each option has its own advantages and disadvantages, and works for some customers but not others.

Online Assessment. To help you decide whether to build or buy BI software for your application, Eckerson Group has created a short online assessment that will generate a customized recommendation based on your answers to 24 questions.

Upon completing the assessment, you receive a personalized report that recommends whether you should build or buy BI software and why. It also shows aggregate results of others who completed the assessment so you can benchmark your results against all respondents.

This report outlines the rationale behind the assessment and scoring model and provides general advice on whether you should build or buy reporting and analysis functionality to embed in your application.

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1. See Wayne Eckerson, “Embedded BI: Putting Reporting and Analysis Everywhere,” TechTarget, December, 2014.