The New Era of Enterprise Business Intelligence

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The typical enterprise recognizes the immense potential of business intelligence (BI) but transforming this potential into real value is challenging. A top BI expert presents a comprehensive blueprint for creating effective BI strategies and infrastructure, aimed at maximizing information value across the organization. This guide offers practical checklists for senior IT executives, planners, strategists, implementers, and business users, providing start-to-finish guidance. Drawing on extensive experience with enterprise customers, the author helps decision-makers navigate today’s diverse options, including the latest BI platform suites and appliances. Insights cover a wide range of planning and implementation issues, from user segmentation to unstructured data management. Key topics include understanding the scope of current BI solutions, assessing new options like SaaS and cloud technologies, avoiding biases and project pitfalls, developing effective RFIs/RFPs, establishing competency centers, and planning for skills development. The guide also emphasizes enhancing user experiences, supporting executive requirements, justifying BI costs, and measuring success. Additionally, it addresses enterprise content management, text analytics, search, and the construction of portals and user interfaces, while previewing the future of BI.