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Best Practices for Buying BI Software

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Ask Mark Albala for advice on shopping for BI software and he sighs.

"Get your infrastructure ready for the flood," he said. Albala, vice president at CS Solutions of New Jersey, means the flood of data fed by Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Basel II, as well as the rising use of multimedia and all the other factors now facing enterprises.

All the experts I asked for advice about shopping for BI software agreed with Albala. However, the others looked less at the horizon and more at the task of shopping.

"He’s absolutely right," said Sid Adelman, consultant and co-author of Impossible Data Warehouse Situations (2002, Addison-Wesley) and other books. Don’t look at just what you need today. Be thinking five years ahead, and be sure any solution can scale up to at least three times your original volume in two areas: data volume and concurrent users. "You don’t want to switch out systems later on."

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