1. Does your organisation use a Business Intelligence (BI) solution*? If yes, please mark an x in the table below against the BI tool/tools the organisation uses
2. What was the annual cost of the BI solution for 20/21 (April 2020- March 2021)?
3. How many users in the organisation use the BI Tool?
4. Does the organisation have a dedicated in-house BI/informatics team? If yes, how many FTEs are in the BI/informatics team?
5. Which department do the BI/informatics team report into in the organisation?
6. Could you please provide the name and job title of the person who leads the BI/informatics team?
7. Does the organisation use a benchmarking tool**? If yes, please mark an x in the table below against the benchmarking tool/tools the organisation uses
8. What was the annual cost of the benchmarking tool for 20/21 (April 2020- March 2021)?
9. Does the organisation subscribe to any benchmarking services? e.g. Dr Foster
10. Which departments / specialties are the biggest users of a) BI tools and b) benchmarking tools in the organisation? e.g. Finance, HR
11. Does your organisation have a data warehouse***? If yes, please state if the data warehouse is on premise or in- cloud?
12. Does the organisation use any other third-party systems to provide managed reporting? If yes, please state the name/names of the other third-party system/systems used? e.g. Beautiful Information, Public View
*A Business Intelligence tool is a type of application designed to retrieve, analyse, transform, and report data for business intelligence normally in the form of interactive dashboards
**A Benchmarking tool is used to compare the performance of the business processes and products with the best performances of other companies inside and outside the industry.
***A data warehouse is a type of data management system/central repository of information that is designed to enable and support BI activities, especially analytics.

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