Business Analytics: Embedded intelligence

For smaller firms, business insights are often gleaned from built-in tools that come with their accounts and ERP packages.

There is no better place to make sense of your business data than in and around accounting and ERP packages that are the information backbone for most small- and medium-sized businesses. Application vendors that operate in this space, like Exchequer Software and Intact Software, have seen growing interest in the business intelligence (BI) tools they provide as features and functionality in their applications or as tightly integrated modules.

Alan Connor, commercial director at ...