Gartner has done a study about Top Strategic Technology in every year, and for the 2009 and 2010, Business Intelligence has become one of that list. If you want to know, whether you have used this technology in your work or company then this discussion would be answered your question.
Business Intelligence is a generic name which in its implementation and use can be in many forms. Wikipedia defined it as to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context. It is aimed to help business decision making process more accurate as it has some valid data to support it.
While everyone would like be able to do so, however it its real implementation that is not easy case. Several key challenges that I experienced are :
- The project is treated as technology implementation. The project must have a strong business analyst or data analyst that knows exactly the requirements
- Users have not been discipline from the start in providing the necessary data to make decision. In this case the application will not be able to do anything
- Scope is not defined well and application comes as a tool. This often create a situation where the output is not what the users are expected
- Technology issues such as sizing capacity and the selection of the tools are also need to be prepared carefully
In this discussion - you might want to know what is there in the market for you to used, and Gartner clasification of Business Intelligence Platform could be usefull.
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