Enterprises selecting business intelligence solutions have become more concerned with ease-of-integration above all other factors. Clearly this this is due to the variety of data sources that BI solutions must plug into combined with the increasing need for BI solutions to be embedded into existing business applications.

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I'm sure in 2005 hardly anyone is building stand-alone BI solutions anymore, right? ;-) I currently have 34 windows open and really don't want even one more. Maybe your users feel the same way?

But what of the relatively luke-warm importance buyers place on BI solution scalability and functionality? It would seem that the majority of BI solutions may have achieved a certain technical parity other than in the areas of data sourcing and app integration. Interesting how times are changing in the BI market.

Telling IT like it is,

Doug