Embracing Business Intelligence - Part 1

Purchasing BI tools, creating data warehouse & reports is not end of the BI implementation. To me its a begining of your journey to reap the benefits from this amazing science. Its important to have a comprehensive plan for adoption of this practice within the roadmap itself.

I would like to talk about an approach that can be taken to embrace business intelligence within an organization.

Take Small but Quick Steps If you are just beginning, dont start with a big bang approach with multi-million budget. In most of these cases, the individual decision makers dont get the required attention from the implementation partner (BI vendor). Prioritize the work, start with the function where the need of quick visibility is inevitable. With this approach, you will have more confidence on the effectiveness of this practice.

Simplicity is the KEY According to a survey, only 5% of the users of this system are advance analysts who care about flexibility in analyzing the data. Rest of the 95% care about the information in easiest possible way. For them the relevant information must be few clicks away. In the race of competition, the commercial BI solutions companies dumped a lot of features which are irrelevant to a big % of the user base. Infact with my own experience, a quick and relevant report in excel format is worth million than having the same from a fancy but complex to use tool.

Need to push off for a meeting, more in Part 2