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October 14, 2022

Why do common BI solutions struggle so much with financial services analytics?

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BI tools such as Excel, Tableau, Power BI and Qlik are trustworthy workhorses used across different industries to digest data and render them into accessible tables, diagrams, and graphs.

And yet, when speaking with end users, these products all seem to stop short when performing advanced financial analytics, particularly risk analytics. Why does this seem to only happen in finance? How is it still an issue in the era of Big Data?

 

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