{"id":12164,"date":"2010-11-06T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2010-11-06T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T11:00:16","slug":"expanding-bi-one-department-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/expanding-bi-one-department-at-a-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Expanding BI One Department at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;\" title=\"Shawn Lester\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/I8179111-266x3001.jpg?resize=266%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" align=right alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/shawn-lester\/0\/110\/288\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn Lester<\/a> has written a nice post on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sap.com\/analytics\/2010\/11\/03\/expanding-bi-one-department-at-a-time\/\">Analytics \u00bb Expanding BI One Department at a Time<\/a> on the <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sap.com\/analytics\" target=\"_blank\">SAP Analytics Blog<\/a>, including a handy list of business pains that you might consider as part of needs analysis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Executive KPIs: What is top of mind for the executives? Often this may fall into some type of dashboarding and process like six sigma or balanced scorecard<\/li>\n<li>Extranet Initiative: Is there a need to share information with customers or collaborate with partners or suppliers?<\/li>\n<li>Operational BI: Is there a department that has a need for operational dashboards or embedded analytics?<\/li>\n<p>Office of Finance: Is there an opportunity to improve budgeting, planning, or financial reporting?<\/p>\n<li>Departmental BI Project: Is there a motivated department with an identified need and desire for a BI project?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Lester has written a nice post on\u00a0Analytics \u00bb Expanding BI One Department at a Time on the SAP Analytics Blog, including a handy list of business pains that you might consider as part of needs analysis: Executive KPIs: What is top of mind for the executives? Often this may fall into some type of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi-briefs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/I8179111-266x3001.jpg?fit=266%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3ac","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}