Mike Smith, General Manager, Financial/Services Research and Lorin Bird, Strategic Operations Manager, Financial and Services Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Mike and Lorin share findings from recent KLAS research on business intelligence (BI) to answer questions such as who can provide an enterprise-wide BI solution? What benefits can be expected? Which solutions provide accurate, timely data? What are the challenges of BI and how are providers successfully overcoming them? And who has the strongest reporting, dashboarding and analytics capabilities? In addition, Mike examines consulting firms’ roles in BI deployment and strategy.