BI Now Regarded as Urgent For Many Companies If businesses were in doubt before as to whether they could justify the cost and implementation schedule of business intelligence solutions, the recession is certainly making them wish they had taken the jump earlier.
There are many comments as to how the rate of change in business has [...]

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Be careful not to focus all your energy on where the market is at present. My ex husband was a national champion clay bird shooter and as anyone familiar with this sport will tell you – it is no good shooting at where the target is now. You need to be able to anticipate where [...]

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The latest Gartner 2009 CIO Agenda survey of 1500 CIO’s has revealed some surprising and not so surprising results.
Firstly, the not so surprising is that BI has been voted as the top technology for 2009, with the focus of its application on improving business processes. This supports the maturation of business intelligence into the market, [...]

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When organizations first start with BI, there tends to be a focus on the visual excitement of the dashboard. At this point, there is a danger that the focus of the group will be on the results, and not the action to drives these results. This is where deconstructing corporate objective KPI’ down to a [...]

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