{"id":6349,"date":"2013-07-01T13:46:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2020-05-26T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T19:35:21","slug":"confused-by-business-intelligence-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/confused-by-business-intelligence-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused by Business Intelligence? Read this."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" alt=\"Education\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" \/><\/a>Are you confused by all of the Business Intelligence options and terminology? If so, you\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this confusion is actually hurting the BI industry as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>According to the research firm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/2507915\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">Gartner<\/span><\/a>, the Business Intelligence (BI) software market slowed slightly in 2012. One of the reasons for this slowdown: Confusion surrounding BI technology terms. <\/p>\n<p>The fact is, despite having more options than ever before, businesses face a growing problem: With an ever-increasing number of BI vendors touting their own solutions and terminology, choosing a BI solution is now a confusing process.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re dealing with this issue, I\u2019d like to help. We\u2019ve put together a free BI guide entitled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/research\/BIPaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">Essential features of a good BI solution<\/span><\/a>.\u201d The free guide helps companies cut through the BI confusion and understand which features and capabilities they must target in a BI solution. I hope you find it useful.<br \/>\n<a name=\"20130628\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you confused by all of the Business Intelligence options and terminology? If so, you\u2019re not alone. In fact, this confusion is actually hurting the BI industry as a whole. According to the research firm, Gartner, the Business Intelligence (BI) software market slowed slightly in 2012. One of the reasons for this slowdown: Confusion surrounding &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/confused-by-business-intelligence-read-this\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Confused by Business Intelligence? Read this.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Confused by Business Intelligence? Read this. - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Are you confused by all of the Business Intelligence options and terminology? If so, you\u2019re not alone. In fact, this confusion is actually hurting the BI indust"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-business-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12792,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions\/12792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}