BeyeRESEARCH - Ease of Use and Interface Appeal in Business Intelligence Tools

Ease of Use and Interface Appeal in Business Intelligence Tools

by Cindi Howson

Published: March 22, 2010

Business intelligence tools play a mission-critical role in identifying new business opportunities and helping knowledge workers make better decisions. But the widespread adoption of BI tools has been hindered by their reputation as being hard to use. Cindi Howson researches the impact of an appealing user interface and ease of use in this report.

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Cindi Howson -

Cindi is the founder of BIScorecard, a website for in-depth business intelligence (BI) product reviews and has 15 years of business intelligence and management reporting experience. She is the author of Business Objects XI: The Complete Reference and Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI the Killer App. Prior to founding BIScorecard, Cindi was a manager at Deloitte & Touche and a BI standards leader for a Fortune 500 company. She has an MBA from Rice University. She may be contacted by e-mail at cindihowson@biscorecard.com.

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