Your Business Intelligence Issues
We hear you. We understand that your issues are complex and your solutions
need to be well-thought out.
Do any of these issues sound familiar?
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We need to expand the business use and usefulness of our data warehouse
so it provides deeply targeted data to even more business users.
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The pressure is on. There are lots of projects in our queue, all competing
for the same budget dollars and priorities. We need to improve the total
cost of ownership of our data warehouse, BI, and data integration efforts.
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We're considering analytical applications for corporate performance management
(CPM) because it looks like a quick solution, but is it? How does it fit
with our existing data warehouse/business intelligence applications?
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We know that we need to improve the reporting of our ERP
systems, but how does the vendor's solution fit in? Can we keep what we
already have — does our existing custom warehouse mesh with the
vendor's solution?
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We just discovered a data shadow system in one of the business
groups. How can we incorporate the business functionality of this system
into our overall data warehouse solution?
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It's important to preserve the business functionality and responsiveness
of our departmental Access and Excel-based shadow systems when we start
working more closely with the IT department. We know it's time to shift
our focus from data gathering to data analysis. But how can we do this
without spending millions of dollars and spending years of development
time?
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The ROI of our data warehouse is embarrassing. We invested $10 million
and countless hours building it, but it's only being used by 50 business
people and takes a staff of 12 to maintain. How can we expand its usage
and increase its ROI?
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Should we standardize on a set of BI tools? Which ones?
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We established a corporate standard for ETL, but the individual business
groups are still using cheaper ETL tools or hand-coding. How can we get
everyone on the same page?
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There are several different groups doing data integration across our
enterprise. Do we need to organize their efforts to reduce costs and improve
responsiveness to business needs?
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