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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With many articles having been written about the cause and expected course of the current recession, it is time to look past the theory and focus on real tools and strategies needed to survive the current downturn.
Gartner has released its Top Tech list for 2009, and BI sits at #9. This years top strategic technology is very much based at the infrastructure, rather than the application level with virtualization, cloud computing, computing fabric, web-oriented architecture and unified communications. This has somewhat overpowered the strategic value of BI, but is significant to [...]
One of the biggest mistakes companies make in implementing business intelligence is in defining the scope of the implementation. With data consolidation and management such a massive challenge to kick off any BI program, it is not surprising that most scopes are limited data and software [and the associated IT infrastructure]. Whilst software and data [...]
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