A Business Intelligence platform will extract the useful data from any number of source systems and collate it into a central data warehouse. Depending on your situation there may only be a single source system, or there could be dozens all using different technologies. The data is copied, it can be validated, cleaned, summarised, standardised and even enhanced. You can then decide who has access to this central pool of information, and in what format. You can be confident that your whole organisation is using the correct, consistent information to make their critical business decisions.
Most IT systems are designed with one purpose of running day to day business. They do a very good job in their own, however as an organisation it is likely that you encounter a number of following problems:
Most companies could gain huge benefits from a well implemented Business Intelligence platform. We have undertaken projects that have taken as little as a week and as much as two years.