Submitted By: Divya K Nayer Piyush Shukla: 3/24/2014 Business Intelligence For Dummies
Submitted By: Divya K Nayer Piyush Shukla: 3/24/2014 Business Intelligence For Dummies
Submitted By: Divya K Nayer Piyush Shukla: 3/24/2014 Business Intelligence For Dummies
Submitted by:
Divya K Nayer Piyush Shukla
Business Intelligence For Dummies 3/24/2014
In This Chapter:
Finding the right skills for your team
3/24/2014
3/24/2014
4 Business Analyst (BA): BAs are translators who move between the technical staff and the business teams, enabling communication in both directions. Because they must create a common platform for communication, BAs, like PMs, must have a good understanding of the underlying BI technologies as well as a solid grasp of the business goals. As they must create a common platform for communication, BAs, like PMs, must have a good understanding of the underlying BI technology as well as a solid grasp of the business goals. BAs operating in a BI environment must have a particular handle on how data moves not only within a companys operational systems but between those same systems to succeed
Business Intelligence For Dummies 3/24/2014
Data architects and designers (DAs): These folks work at the lowest levels of the data itself, designing data models, database structure, and information flows through the various elements of a BI solution. The data architect must be prepared to work closely with the business analysts to keep the data model in synch with the business model. As with many positions in the BI world, the DAs have to know just when to break certain rules, deviate from best practices, and mix in their own brands of solutions as they design the data model.
3/24/2014
Data-quality analyst (DQA): When a system relies on a data warehouse, a data-quality analyst in the project is a must. The DQA is there to assess the fitness of the data that courses through the operational and transactional systems for use in the data warehouse. The DQA has a strong hand in the ETL process, making the call on which cleansing routines must be used on data from each source before its transferred into the warehouse.
3/24/2014
BICC
3/24/2014
Major in Competence
A common trend in the BI world is to set up a permanent organization tasked with maintaining the companys BI effort. Enter the BI Center of Excellence (BICOE) or (as its also known) the Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC).
Just building the BI solution can often be a multimillion-dollar enterprise that takes dozens of months to accomplish. But the enormity of that challenge is nothing compared to what it takes to actually maintain the BI system over several years.
The purpose of the BICC is to act as a permanent body whose sole focus is to address every aspect of BI throughout the organization, from establishing standards and priorities, to driving the overall BI strategy
Business Intelligence For Dummies
BICCs dont issue orders or hand down mandates that must be followed. They make formal recommendations to the appropriate executive and management teams that actually govern the company.
3/24/2014
10
11
In This Chapter:
Considering the way it is
3/24/2014
12
It includes a more detailed examination of the BI capabilities you already have(versus desired capabilities). The goal here is to collect information about your organizations current BI capabilities, assess its current BI needs, and chart a way forward to the next step: creating a roadmap, project plan, and requirements documentation. From there, you can begin building the project.
3/24/2014
13
14
15
Examining Barriers
Human - The company doesnt have the right people in place to make the necessary changes. Methodology - The company doesnt foster an appropriate amount of cooperation, communication, or some other quality thats necessary to make it work. Process - The company doesnt follow sound or universal processes to achieve its strategic objectives. Technology - The companys technology environment is woefully inadequate to handle the load of such a system. Political - There are too many forces resistant to changes to think that such a system would even be possible.
Business Intelligence For Dummies 3/24/2014
Data risks: How stable is the data? How much clean up will be required Application risks: Are we familiar with the tools? Are they reliable and easily integrated Organizational risks: Are the users ready to accept this initiative,Will other teams cooperate with the implementation? Financial: Is this project fully funded? What could cause it to break the budget.
A business intelligence precipitates real business changes in the way processes flow and decisions are made. Hold a stakeholders summit. This meeting will introduce many of the key solution concepts and present some of the outstanding choices still to be made
Lock your decision and move ahead. A point is reached where one strategy stands out above the rest.
3/24/2014
18
3/24/2014