Asking for Your Help: User Percentage Research?

Business intelligence standardization (which I define as “pragmatically reducing the number of overlapping tools in order to reduce costs and maximize the benefits of business intelligence”) seems to be on the rise, at least in my neck of the woods. Several large customers are looking for external validation of how many BI users they “should” have, and of what profiles (simple reporting, interactive reporting, ad-hoc reporting,... [Read More...]

Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail — And What To Do About It

Here’s another presentation from Sapphire in Berlin. The overview was: “Learn how to avoid the mistakes that other companies have made implementing business intelligence solutions and ensure success for your own projects. Discover the major assumptions and pitfalls that can lead to project failure and learn what other companies have done to avoid these problems and ensure long-term success.” One participant came up to me afterwards... [Read More...]

Delivering Results with Business Intelligence

Here’s one of the presentations I gave at Sapphire last month. It is a high-level, introductory overview that covers key business intelligence themes and how to overcome the major barriers to successful deployments: data integration, ease of use, and cost of deployment. It is illustrated (inevitably) with examples of Business Objects technology. Link to a PDF version of the presentation Link to the PPT file (15mb)  Read More →