The purpose of this chapter is to describe all the conclusions made after
answering all research questions and also describe the further scope of research can be
conducted.
Research Question 1- What are the popular Business Intelligence Tools available in the
market?
After answering this research question we can conclude that only few vendors are
able to provide products and services for all layers of BI architecture. The BI tools of BI
vendors providing services for all layers of BI architecture are considered as popular BI
tools in the market because most of the organizations prefer to buy all BI products from
BI vendor who able to provide services and products for every layer of the BI
architecture. This the main reason for acquisitions made by popular BI vendors where
they can attract all levels of organizations by providing services at every layer of BI
architecture. Finally we conclude that Oracle, SAS, IBM (Cognos), SAP, and Microsoft
are the popular BI vendors in the market after comparing the total number of customers
There can be further research can be conducted by practical execution and testing
of the BI tools provided by the different BI vendors. It is recommended that the findings
for this research question can be taken as initial step in investigating popular BI tools in
the market.
Research Question -2 what are the services provided by the BI tools for business
organizations?
After answering this research question we can conclude that all the popular BI
tool vendors considered for research are able to provide all Data mining, OLAP, Query,
and Reporting services. Only few services are not provided by the popular BI tool
vendors.
There can be further research can be conducted by practical execution and testing
of the BI tools provided by the different BI vendors. The services can be analyzed in
After answering this research question we can conclude that Oracle, SAS, and
Microsoft are able to provide most advanced features for data mining and analytical
analysis. The other popular vendors are also providing advanced features but not as
There can be further research can be conducted by practical execution and testing
of the BI tools provided by the different BI vendors. More features can be considered for
research while only few features are analyzed in this research. The features can be
Research Question – 4 Compare and contrast all features of BI tools by providing rating
providing best data mining, OLAP, Query, and Reporting services and features for their
customers. In this research question rating is provided after analyzing their features and
There can be further research can be conducted by practical execution and testing
of the BI tools provided by the different BI vendors. More features and services can be
considered for research while only few features and services are analyzed in this research.
The features can be analyzed in depth by practical testing of BI tools provided by popular
Research Question – 5 How can a BI tool influence business organization for its success
After answering this research question we can conclude that organization have to
choose predictive and analytical tool which exactly matches to their company profile can
earn more than it spend on BI tools. By predicting the risks and frauds companies can
reduce the bad customers and unnecessary production of products. Organizations can
analyze the trends and sales by simple queries without the involvement of the IT
department.
The findings in this research question can be taken as initial results. There can be
further research can be conducted by a high level survey by interviewing high level
executives of successful organizations using BI tools for predictive and analytic analysis.