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 →
Crossing the Chasm: Delivering a Strategic, Enterprise BI System
The third and final web seminar presentation on BI Maturity that I did last week with Wayne Eckerson: how to make BI a strategic asset for the organization. As I joked with Wayne on the call, I think the maturity model probably needs extending with an additional ”canyon”, because many organizations have managed to deploy BI enterprise-wide, but still haven’t managed to connect it with the strategy and finances of the organization. Click... [Read More...]
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