By incorporating business intelligence into an ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and business partners, organisations can respond to market changes more quickly, build and maintain a competitive edge, and achieve improved customer satisfaction.

By deploying BI over a secure extranet, third parties can be given self-service access to operational reports and other information.

Benefits include:

	Increase Collaboration through quicker identification of emerging business opportunities and trends
	Gain Visibility into the value chain by facilitating information exchange among critical business partners
	Differentiate Offerings through personalized customer service and unique business analysis capabilities
	Streamline Business Processes by tightening links between downstream and upstream business participants