Business Intelligence Standardisation

Graham Walter

29th June 2005

Departmental, Project based

Small Numbers of Expert Users

Outside IT Governance process

Resulted in fragmented solution

Traditional BI

External Factors are driving BI

The BI user community is growing and changing

Users are demanding more from BI applications

BI is Mission Critical

BI is an accepted ‘Infrastructure component’

Standardisation is the norm

Things Are Changing

What must we do?

Traditional success factors

Business Sponsor

Address defined business need

Iterative development

New considerations

Steering group

Competence Centre

Roadmap

IT production quality

Barriers to Standardisation

Timing

Politics

Internal resistance

Available technology?

Cost of Migration

WHY CHOOSE A SINGLE BI STANDARD?

1. Simplify

2. Become more agile and responsive

3. Lay foundation for improving performance

4. Reduce your TCO

LAY A FOUNDATION FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE3

The future

The future