How can a business intelligence application help an organization? In the example here, a $900 million company wanted to streamline its sales and quote-to-order processes, aiming to give sales employees the ability to easily obtain details about sales in the pipeline. Under the previous setup, a sales employee would have to ask a software programmer to create a report or manually dig up sales information from multiple sources and type it into an Excel file, a process that could take up to a week. Using business intelligence software, that same sales employee could create a query to generate a report in under a day.

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