Business Analytics: BI made easy for small businesses

Tools are now available for generating role-based reports that will give small firms unprecedented insights into their business. Ian Campbell reports.

Claiming to be one of the first in-memory BI solutions, QlikView was launched seven years ago by a Swedish software company, at a time when the high cost of RAM meant it was a niche solution for super large organisations and governments. Today it's one of a suite of applications available from K3FDS, an IT services company that sells ERP and CRM software from Sage and Microsoft into Ireland and Britain.

''Bringing disparate ...