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So you've narrowed the business intelligence software vendors you're considering down to a shortlist. You know what your business needs out of the software, and you have a good idea of where to get it.

The standard marketing-speak surrounding business intelligence software goes something like this: business intelligence used to be only for large enterprises, but now it's for all businesses!

Imagine a building owner with a burst pipe spewing water into their basement. Now, look at your website and think, “Is that customer going to call me, or a competitor?"

Big data's big in more than one way. First, there's an ungodly amount of it. Second, figuring out how to get insights out of all that data is a lucrative career field. There's a reason why the business intelligence software market is expected to grow at an overall rate of 7.9% from now until 2020.

If you're trying to figure out how to give your career a much-needed boost, just listen to that American sage Vanilla Ice: stop, collaborate, and listen.

UPDATE 10/9/2017: We’ve updated this list to add two new options and include some updated information for the original entries. With three employees in three trucks, it’s pretty easy to figure out who’s where, if they’re on time, and how much each technician is costing you at the pump. With twenty techs and a dozen vehicles, trying to track all that can get hairy. Luckily, fleet management software can help you keep tabs on everyone.

The idea that you should leave well enough alone is overrated, whether it's your business intelligence software choices or your choice of entertainment.

There's no process more painfully ironic than the job hunt. It doesn't bring in any money, but it works you like a dog. You're looking for the routine and regularity of a steady job, but the hunt is unpredictable and chaotic.

Overwhelmed by the deluge of the internet's artificial intelligence info? Feeling as helpless and adrift in the face of artificial intelligence articles and blog posts as that one astronaut HAL 9000 killed? (Too soon?)