Examples of Business Intelligence Benefits

Building OLAP cube or Universe as business intelligence reporting environment might be of great help for company reporting process. Here are some examples of measurable benefits that could be achieved with implementation of OLAP or Universe:

• accuracy of data, compared to old reporting systems
• easy trace of information till the source, for example drill down functionality, clear clue what is reported and how it came to numbers that are shown
• saving of human resources that otherwise must provide either the IT or from external suppliers
• independency of analysts in finance in relation to an internal or external IT suppliers
• possibility of realization of the analysis of the defined data set, without the need for involvement of anyone other than analysts 
• flexibility to the new additional requirements.