Best Practices Series: Embedded Analytics Vendor Selection Guide

Integrating a rich analytics offering into your software product can bring substantial benefits, including enhanced competitive differentiation, increased customer satisfaction, and the ability to tap new markets for growth.

Further, when compared to a ‘build in-house’ approach, embedding analytics often requires a much lower investment of time and development resources, resulting in superior time-to-value for the analytics initiative.

This document from Pentaho is intended to help product leaders cover all the bases during their embedded analytics evaluation. Vendor evaluation guidelines have been categorized into 6 areas:

• Data Access, Integration, and Management
• End User Analytics Functionality
• Embedding Analytics into the Application User Interface
• Deployment and Security
• Extensibility, Customization, and Transparency
• Services, Support, and Vendor Experience