Improve business performance with BI

The quality of a business decision rests upon two key factors--information and context. In order to satisfy the first half of that equation and capture, assemble, and deliver actionable information to the right people, companies are increasingly turning to business intelligence (BI) tools.
This Aberdeen report, “Collaborative BI: Harnessing the Extended Enterprise to Boost Productivity,” demonstrates how top companies are now looking into their “extended enterprise,” such as customers, supplies, and distribution partners, to gain more information and make better decisions. Based on feedback from more than 200 end users across the globe, the report examines the connection between collaborative knowledge sharing and analytical activity that leads to improved business performance.

Read this report to discover how and why best-in-class companies:

• Possess high customer retention rates.
• Use BI to measure and track analytics.
• Collaborate with stakeholders.

Figure: BI Collaboration in the Extended Enterprise

Source: Aberdeen Group, July 2011

Increasingly, top companies are tapping into the brainpower that resides not only within their organizations, but in various elements of their "extended enterprise"—such as customers, suppliers, and distribution partners—in order to wrap the right context around their information and support better decisions.

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