What BI Tools Can Do — The Six Different BI Artifacts You Should Know

Dashboards, Graphs, Reports, Spreadsheets, OLAP Cubes, or direct SQL Access?

The six BI artifacts. The usual company goes through a journey of spreadsheets -> Reports & Dashboards -> “somewhere else….”.

Artifact, from the two Latin words, arte “by skill” and factum “to make”. Something skillfully created on purpose. A great word to describe something created by a development process.