BI Tool Requirements: 3 Questions to Ask Yourself (+ 55 Point Checklist)

Business intelligence tools should be the highest-impact software an organization uses. But this potential comes along with huge amounts of complexity and ambiguity around purchasing.

While other key tools like CRMs and ERPs are similarly complex, they solve very specific, functional, and describable business needs for easily identifiable stakeholders.

BI tools have to do all that while also enabling more aspirational goals like changing data culture for a much wider and more diverse group of audiences.

All this leads to a daunting purchasing decision.

• No standard view of need or requirement
• The brief becomes vague (“easy to use”) or prone to featurism (”we want AI”)