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scottalanmiller

SW had a post about how BI is rampant in the SMB and used at like 30% of companies and they wanted to know what tools people saw. I said I'd never see that in any SMB and asked what use cases were being seen.... instead of responding they deleted the thread. Argh.

RojoLoco

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

SW had a post about how BI is rampant in the SMB and used at like 30% of companies and they wanted to know what tools people saw. I said I'd never see that in any SMB and asked what use cases were being seen.... instead of responding they deleted the thread. Argh.

I can still see that thread... or maybe it is a different one.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

SW had a post about how BI is rampant in the SMB and used at like 30% of companies and they wanted to know what tools people saw. I said I'd never see that in any SMB and asked what use cases were being seen.... instead of responding they deleted the thread. Argh.

BI?

I'm thinking of the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim

Minion Queen

Business Intelligence.

DustinB3403

@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.

Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.

Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.

Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.

It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.

Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.

Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.

It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.

What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.

Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.

Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.

It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.

What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?

In the SMB, it is typically just getting real time & historical reporting setup on whatever the business goals are, along with some KPI info.

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.

Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.

Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.

It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.

What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?

In the SMB, it is typically just getting real time & historical reporting setup on whatever the business goals are, along with some KPI info.

I guess I see this regularly, but it's so common and old that I don't think of it as BI

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.

Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.

Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.

It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.

What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?

In the SMB, it is typically just getting real time & historical reporting setup on whatever the business goals are, along with some KPI info.

I guess I see this regularly, but it's so common and old that I don't think of it as BI

It is pretty much the bare minimum, but it is BI.

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.

Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.

Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.

It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.

What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?

In the SMB, it is typically just getting real time & historical reporting setup on whatever the business goals are, along with some KPI info.

I guess I see this regularly, but it's so common and old that I don't think of it as BI

It is pretty much the bare minimum, but it is BI.

Yeah, I get it now. Once you mentioned KPI... we run KPI SaaS for some of our big customers. We build the databases, reporting interfaces, data collection systems, etc. ourselves. So we don't think of it as BI because we use no BI tools and have been doing this one particular task since the 1990s. But, of course, it is a form of BI. In a way, just about everything is.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.

Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.

Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.

It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.

What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?

In the SMB, it is typically just getting real time & historical reporting setup on whatever the business goals are, along with some KPI info.

I guess I see this regularly, but it's so common and old that I don't think of it as BI

It is pretty much the bare minimum, but it is BI.

Yeah, I get it now. Once you mentioned KPI... we run KPI SaaS for some of our big customers. We build the databases, reporting interfaces, data collection systems, etc. ourselves. So we don't think of it as BI because we use no BI tools and have been doing this one particular task since the 1990s. But, of course, it is a form of BI. In a way, just about everything is.