1)My boss has expressed interest in purchasing a business intelligence system for our human resource department for a recruiting agency and asked me to prepare a report for her on the subject. She wants me to address the following topics:

a)How will business intelligence software help our business - I have complete this portion.
b)What sort of information and analysis capabilities does it provide - I have completed this portion.

c)What hardware and system software are required to run the application - My boss wants my imput on software

d)List some of the major vendors and your evaluation of their products. She specifically expresses interest in IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle.