Packaged Business Intelligence (BI) applications have emerged as a cost-effective, user-friendly alternative to traditional BI tools. The new generation of pre-built BI applications goes far beyond hard coded dashboards and rigid data models offering flexible, customizable dashboard analytics based on best practice business data models based on specific industries or verticals. On the infrastructure side, all necessary storage, ETL code, data models, BI tool Metadata, and pre-built reporting content is also included. Advanced BI applications,, like FusionOps, even include change data capture and pre-built integrations with end applications, portals, ERP, advanced data services, or even other BI tools.
Cloud BI applications offer real business value for an organization by providing a gamut of advanced analytics driven BI capabilities for optimizing operational efficiency, supply chain intelligence and reducing costs and generating new revenue opportunities in a cost-effective manner.
Why buy a packaged BI application rather than build a BI solution

Time-to-value
The total cost of Cloud BI Applications and associated licenses is far less than what you will invest to build it on your own. Also, BI Apps like FusionOps, can be deployed in as little as a few hours, while traditional BI tools can take months or years.

Better functionality
In addition to the very strong Time-to-Value argument, there will be functionality and benefits that would be difficult or impossible for you to reproduce on your own. Things like self-service analytics, flexible dashboards and business data models and sharing and collaboration are already built into Cloud BI applications.
Supplementary data or complex metrics
The whole BI Apps package brings vast infrastructural components with it. Complex metrics usually created with a combination or ERP & non-ERP data can be plugged into the existing large scoped data model with little effort.