The secret to BI success

When allocating resources to a BI implementation, organizations should focus on four key pillars, according to Gartner. The first pillar is user training, Hostman said, including training sessions and communications about the new technology such as newsletters. Organizations also need to focus on an area often overlooked in BI initiatives -- data stewards. For BI to succeed, someone needs to be paying attention to data quality, where it gets dirty, where it decays and who has access to what data. The third pillar of a successful implementation is a focus on the meta data, providing an understanding of where data came from and what effect changing it will have. Finally, an initiative needs to focus on advanced analysis, how to take BI to the next level. Organizations need to understand not only what happened, but why something happened and what might happen in the future, Hostman said,

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datum publicatie: 5/5/2005