What is a BI Portal?

A Business Intelligence (BI) portal is a web-based application that provides centralized access to data analysis tools, reports and dashboards. The need for a BI portal may be caused by:

• when multiple BI tools are used: in this case single BI portal (analytics catalog) can be used to consolidate all reports & dashboards in one place and provide centralized access to these assets. This is often demanded in enterprises where thouthands of reports should be organized in manageable way.
• provide an access to reports/dashboards for "external" users that cannot use a BI app directly (for some reason). For instance, this can be data analytics agency that uses BI portal to deliver their services to end-users.

You may consider to use an existing product or develop your own custom BI portal. The right choice is not obvious and depends on your requirements:

• if you have highly specialized or unique business requirements (for example, very custom UI design) that cannot be adequately addressed by off-the-shelf BI solutions, a custom BI portal may be the best way to tailor the system to your specific needs.
• the cost of existing BI solutions may be too high and development of simple custom in-house web app (where users can login and access embedded reports/dashboards) is much more affordable.

In fact you don't need to have own dev team for that: custom BI portal development & support can be perfectly outsourced. The budget totally depends on the requirements and starts from several $$ thouthands. If you interested in this kind of on-demand offshore development services provided by a reliable company with reasonable pricing: contact us.

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