BI platform selector

1. Main BI goal

Marketing, finance, product and embedded have different platform requirements.

2. Cloud ecosystem

Native BI in your ecosystem lowers integration cost.

3. Organization size

Enterprise BI costs more but offers scale and audit.

4. BI licensing budget

Free plans have user and feature limits.

5. Team technical level

SQL and modeling vs drag-and-drop affects the choice.

6. Deployment model

Self-hosted gives control, SaaS - fast start.

7. Priority feature

Match the platform to the most important capability.