Business Analytics: Look out for the devil in the detail

Exchequer's Alan Connor talks to Ian Campbell about what drives Irish firms to think seriously about BI, and the best options that are open to them.

Businesses start looking for more sophisticated BI products when they outgrow standard tools or off-the shelf-products, said Alan Connor, commercial director at Exchequer Software. That point will come at different times for different organisations and have little to do with transaction numbers or turnover.

''A food processing firm may need enhanced BI to track and trace ingredients that is disproportionate to the size of the business, while a company selling a high volume ...