Business Analytics and Big data: How to Find the suite spot

Off-the-shelf packages and open source platforms are two extremes of data analysis, but there’s a lower cost and less complex model that is doing the job for many organisations, tightly focused business intelligence tools available out-of-the-box with financial packages and ERP systems that crunch the numbers that count for many organisations.

“The most relevant data is the data that can lead to change in the organisation,” said Alan Connor, commercial director of Exchequer ...