In the meanwhile sites like these sell them but they're pretty expensive: http://rfp.technology-evaluation.com/store.asp?catid=15

If you have software like Business Intelligence Development Studio you get a template function within it: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175630.aspx

If you are familiar with SAP they have a 6.2 MB download:https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/1031fb21-6a17-2a10-f087-be8c17fa7201

The links below may help as well.

Easy to use links that will help with all your research needs, try typing a keyword or two into the search engine and see what happens.

http://findarticles.com/

http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp

http://www.aresearchguide.com/

http://www.dogpile.com/

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/8866/index.html

http://www.studentresearcher.com/search/

http://www.chacha.com/

http://www.reference.com/

These BI tools typically use visualization methods to allow the analyst to explore the data with the ability to manipulate very large amounts of data in real time. This allows for a much more interactive approach to analyze the data.

Check out the links below for some example of generalized tools in this area.

Some businesses also use software vendors for BI tools. There are quite a few enterprises offering BI technology. If a business does not get the BI tools themselves, then software vendor will provide a business with tools, and sometimes software support and BI professionals who will help the company analyze results and collect data. Some companies providing BI software are Siebel Systems, Microsoft, Altius Consulting, Business-Soft, and SAS Institute.

For more info read this site http://www.wareprise.com/articles/business-intelligence-101.php

Every business has his own rules, “the way the management look at their business”. For example, a manufacturer can look at the business in terms of: products, customers, time periods (dimensions) and looking at costs, revenues, margins (measures). Customers can be segmented, products can be categorised etc. The way the management looks at the business is their idea of business rules.

When thinking a business intelligence project, you must transfer these rules into an information-business model. For example, you will create a hierarchy between products and their categories, and you will also build a cube using a structure like “products X customers X time period X revenue”. Again: usually the time period is “per month”, but you can also find businesses that works “per week” or “per decade”, and consequently you will specify the time period dimension; and if the company sells over the world, you will be asked to express the revenue in terms of different national money (dollars, euros, …) etc.

These are business rules: concepts and ideas about the business that you will transfer from the mind of the management to the business intelligence system.

Have you heard of this program that actually send thousands of text messages advertising your business for you, i think the url is w w w . a u t o t e x t s e n d e r . c o m

If there is existing BI infrastructure (eg, Data Warehouse established and BI end-user tools identified) then the analysis process is focused on the dataset and latency requirements, etc. If there is no existing infrastructure then it is a whole new ballgame!