We bring you 5 lists, each one containing 5 things, relevant to business intelligence!

Our most recent newsletter, released yesterday to subscribers, contains a range of exciting news – from new videos, to details of Bime’s most recent update, to a testimony from one of our clients, ArcelorMittal.

Taking our inspiration for a post from a discussion on LinkedIn, we thought about whether Business Intelligence should be controlled primarily by the IT department or people from business functions.

Read on for 5 questions you need to answer before deploying business intelligence capabilities.

The basic reasoning behind the existence of BI.

We’re following a recent discussion on LinkedIn entitled: “What do you think are the most promising areas of application for Business Intelligence/Data Mining in the near future?”. We thought this would be an interesting starting point for a blog post, so here are some of the ideas produced in the discussion about which direction BI is heading.

It’s all good and well using a BI solution to measure your business performance, but before you start blindly measuring anything and everything, what are some of the specific KPIs or metrics that you could focus on?

The recently released report by TDWI’s Wayne Eckerson is all about how the need among business intelligence (BI) teams to do “more with less” has significantly increased following the recession. We summarize the underlying points in the report.

There is no doubt that social networking on the Internet has fast matured to the point where it is an essential part of our daily lives. Millions of us are using various online social networks to help achieve better personal and business visibility, but can we use this information to add value to our organizations through BI?

How do finance departments use business intelligence? We take a deeper look into how one fundamental area of an organization can benefit from deploying BI.