Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
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If the goal of your business intelligence project is to deliver a dashboard, you should have warning bells going off in your head. What is a Dashboard An easy to read graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of an organization’s key performance indicators (KPIs) to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance. Business …
Like any other IT project, business intelligence projects have a high risk of failure. Here are 5 reasons why your BI project will fail. Absent or Weak Business Sponsor A strong business sponsor is the most important ingredient for a successful business intelligence sponsor. This person needs to be well-respected within your organization and be able to make decisions for …
So you think you have a data quality problem, or you have been told that you have a data quality problem. Let me tell you, you don’t. Even with the fanciest data quality tool, etl engine, or business intelligence application; your data quality problems are not going to go away. In Reengineering the Corporation, Hammer states: Seemingly small data quality …
There are many prevailing definitions of business intelligence. Ultimately it is up to your organization to adopt the definition that makes sense to you. My favorite definition is provided by Forrester Research. Business Intelligence (BI) is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, …
