Thu 1 Feb 2007
In his post, James Taylor talks about the impact BI has on management and operational staff.The BI world has dramatically evolved over the year but yet the impact it has on organizations is still relatively limited.
The main reason for that is the inability of people to FOCUS on the relevant. BI provides nice and fancy ways to bring back large amounts of data from the “backend†now putting it in the front end but there is a big difference between providing data to the users and making it useful. We always ask customers – is your business better or just better informed?
The way to overcome this includes 2 things according to the way we think about BI: ability to apply sophisticated business rules that filters the exceptional from the mundane. By being able to do that, reports only show the data a user should focus on and care about to take meaningful action. The second solution is to put key metrics in non BI tools to really increase adoption. Expecting users to use a BI tool (regardless of how simple it is to use) is not realistic.
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