Executive Update

Surfing the BI Waves: Tide Turning to SMEs

Posted May 31, 2008 | Technology |

Is business intelligence (BI) and its byproducts meant for only large corporations? To a general audience, the answer looks like "yes." This is mostly due to the halo that has been spread around the BI and data warehousing (DW) world, which portrays the approach as "toys for the big enterprises." The benefits of BI and DW are invariably great both in terms of value and insights, but that does not mean these benefits should be beyond the reach of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

About The Author
Harikrishna Aravapalli
Harikrishna S. Aravapalli is a Senior Technical Architect at SETLabs, Infosys, and has 13 years' experience in databases, data warehouses, and BI technologies. Prior to Infosys, he worked for Wipro and Accenture. He can be reached at harikrishna_sa at infosys.com.
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