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Actinium consulting study: Technical solutions to support business decisions in the medium-sized businesses expect important small businesses BI solutions with as extensive presets and short project times Lindau, 02.07.2012 – the use of business intelligence solutions is becoming increasingly important for the medium-sized companies, their needs differ also still clearly from those of larger companies. This determined Actinium consulting in a comparative study. Then medium-sized companies with less than 25 million euros turnover especially on fast implementations and most extensive preferences worth, larger companies, however, more stress the need for a big performance strength and easier scalability. On the other hand, the question becomes how important technical solutions to support corporate decision-making processes in SMEs are, tend to be identical answers. The decision conditions are similar in the different sizes of business increasingly map, even if some specific requirements”, Actinium Managing Director Klaus Huttl judge. Even the complexity of the decision parameters is sometimes not very different. This makes necessary on the part of the business intelligence solutions to pretty similar on a few exceptions functionality in both the sizes of business. There are the obvious differences in the need for reporting and forecasting, as well as the use of dashboards and the balanced Lieven card.

All other typical BI functions encounter a relatively similar encouragement in the two comparison groups. However, refers to the consultant that that its experiences according to the SME sensitive and rather forbidding responds to complex solutions. As is confirmed in the results of the comparison survey, short project times and very manageable conditions in operation and use are his core requirements.” This means that they want a quick implementation with little customizing and low training costs, while for example, the larger companies mostly just to extensive preferences in BI systems oppose. They argue also does not warrant that they as possible regardless would remain their business intelligence strategies within the framework of a special technical know-how, as is mostly the case in smaller companies. Instead, the larger users place a higher value on solutions that can grow with an individual on-demand and provide a high performance system-level. “Despite all the differences of detail can be nevertheless conclude that BI in the lower middle class found its position”, judge Hall.

This a larger BI culture establishes in the width, what other anchoring of business intelligence solutions in the practice of the company can only serve.” Actinium Actinium Consulting GmbH is a 1999 based consulting firm headquartered in Lindau (Lake Constance) and Vienna, as well as project offices in Stuttgart, Darmstadt, Selm (Dortmund) and Graz. Areas of expertise are business consulting, business intelligence and business integration. The range of services covers all project phases from consultancy and evaluation about the design to the implementation. Customers ALPLA, Nokia, include, for example, Thyssen Krupp Nirosta, Ravensburger, Suddeutscher Verlag, T-systems, Krombacher, Austrian radio, Falkensteiner Michaeler Tourism Group and many other well-known companies.