IT-research agency Gartner describes Business Intelligence (BI) as the usage of information to enable organizations to best decide, measure, manage and optimize performance to achieve efficiency and financial benefit. In short, BI aims to support better business decision-making by providing operational insight. Delaware Consulting has a dedicated team of experienced BI consultants that can help you to achieve this.
 
BI applications use data gathered in a data warehouse. To make a distinction between Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, market research Forrester describes Business Intelligence as a set of methodologies, processes, architectures and technologies that transform raw data often stored in a data warehouse, into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical and operational insights and decision-making.

Applications
 
The most common applications for Business Intelligence are:

• Enterprise Reporting
• Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
• Analytics
• Dashboarding
• Business Performance Management
• Benchmarking
• Trend analysis
• Data mining
• Predictive analysis
• Collaboration and collaborative BI
• Knowledge management

Vendors
 
The BI market has shifted towards mega vendors and others. The mega vendors own 75% of the BI platform market. With the acquisition of Business Objects, SAP is currently rated as the largest BI vendor, followed by IBM, Oracle and the fast-growing Microsoft. With SAP and Microsoft, Delaware Consulting is consciously choosing leading BI stack vendors.

Delaware Consulting has a team of more than 40 BI consultants and is focusing on SAP and Microsoft solutions.