What’s Behind Your BI?

Business intelligence solutions have been around for years, and companies have spent billions of dollars on BI initiatives. Yet surveys show that most end-users and executives still don’t get the information they need to make accurate, timely and consistent decisions. Why? They question the trustworthiness of their data, and believe they are making bad decisions because the data is either late, inaccurate or cannot be viewed in the context they need. In fact, when asked about BI, 72% of senior IT and business leaders say their data is still inconsistent across departments, and 40% said their workers made poor decisions because of it.

The problem does not lie in the BI tools, but in the data and processes behind those BI tools. IT builds a data warehouse to stage the data for your BI tools. If the business changes or if users need new or additional information, the development cycle must be repeated to accommodate the changes. This can add weeks or months to the time needed to fulfill a request. As a result, companies suffer through slow, inconsistent information delivery – the exact opposite of why they created a business intelligence initiative in the first place. So in response, business users go around the IT solution and build more spreadsheets themselves in order to get their answers faster. This further compounds the problem.

The Kalido Information Engine was built to avoid these situations. It helps customers rapidly deploy a BI infrastructure much faster than traditional hand-coding or ETL-based methods. Its ability to instantly adapt and change delivers more accurate, consistent and reliable information faster to your business intelligence tools, which can lead to better analytical performance and better decision making sooner, affording significant top-line growth and bottom-line savings opportunities for your organization.