Table 7: Feature of system connectivity & integration and related criteria.

Key Criteria Ranking Yes No
Rank No. (%) No. (%) No. (%)
Connectivity to a variety of data sources like OLAP cubes, Databases, Lists and Spreadsheets 1 40 (95.2%) 42 (100%) 0
Supporting different operating systems 1 18 (42.9%) 38 (90.5%) 4 (9.5%)
Integrating with portals 3 12 (28.6%) 42 (100%) 0
Integrating with other applications 1 17 (40.5) 42 (100%) 0
Recovering from software or hardware crash 2 14 (33.3%) 40 (95.2%) 2 (4.8%)
Integrating with programmatic APIs for data & metadata 2 15 (35.7%) 34 (81%) 2 (19%)