Category: BI

BI Strategy: The Data Management Center of Excellence: Design and Implementation, Part 2

Before we talk about building the COE, though, let’s talk about what it should encompass. A truly enterprise-wide COE is not one dimensional. In other words, it’s not solely concerned with keeping abreast of the latest tools and technologies. The scope of a comprehensive COE is much broader and spans the core services, functions, tools and metrics that the IT staff will use to select, prioritize, manage, deliver and execute its projects.

BI Briefs: Business Intelligence Goes Back to the Future, Part 3: Focus on Data, Then Tools

Much of the IT literature that you read focuses on tools and technology. That is understandable, since product vendors churn out these materials to sell and market their products. And, of course, many of us are geeks at heart, so we love to read about technology.

Business Intelligence Collaboration: Best Practices, Part 4: The Technology Domain

To continue on the themes of the last two months, we’ll move forward with the approach to plan a business intelligence collaboration (BI-C) environment by expanding on the methodology to perform a readiness assessment an organization has to accept, plan, build and implement a BI-C.

Jumpstart into Business Intelligence: Implementing BI on a Budget

Through smart planning and a relatively small investment, it is possible to experience the benefits of business intelligence technology within a short time frame. Best of all, you will establish a business intelligence foundation that can keep pace with your company’s growing information needs.

In Figure 3 it is Federated Corporate Data Warehouse, not Coporated

Embedded Business Intelligence and Reporting – Going Beyond Traditional BI for Real-Time Analysis

The key to success is enabling operational divisions to make more decisions affecting their function. One of the best ways to slow a business down is to require key decisions to be made high up in the organization.

BI Collaboration Best Practices: Part 3, The Process Domain

Last month we summarized the readiness assessment for the people domain. (See Figure 1 for the four domains of a BI-C program). We’ll proceed with the same example, at the project level: a DW/BI application that addresses a specific, internal business need based on the measuring, monitoring and controlling a process.

BI Strategy: Making Order Out of Chaos: Building an Enterprise-Wide Data Management Environment

Data chaos is a disorganized IT environment characterized by inconsistent, unreliable, redundant, and de-centralized data.