SMMEs will need BI to flourish as the economy recovers

Small business is usually the bright spot in any recovering economy. As the economy emerges from the recession, business owners may well grow their companies which means that they will need to look for small business software to automate certain operations and scale for growth. Business Intelligence (BI) could become essential for SMMEs to reduce growing pains in the face of prosperity. The many benefits from a low-cost, quick to deploy business intelligence solution that delivers trusted information in the familiar face of Excel could be just what the recession doctor ordered for SMMEs to flourish.

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Gartner speaks same BI language as Alchemex

At Gartner Inc.’s annual Business Intelligence Summit in Las Vegas last week, the white flag was waved on using Excel for BI. Gartner analysts and BI managers said that efforts to stop Excel BI use were bound to fail and that the use of Excel as a BI tool is inevitable.

This is what BI vendor Alchemex has been saying for the last eight years: For SMMEs especially, BI in Excel is the route to go.

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