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How to Avoid the Six Worst Practices in Business Intelligence
How to TurnBusiness Intelligence Failure Into Success
Avoid the Six Worst Practices
BI projects have a 70-80% typical failure rate.*
Learn to succeed.
* Goodwin, Bill. “Poor Communication to Blame for Business Intelligence Failure, Says Gartner”, Computer Weekly.com, January 2011.
Learning what not to do is the first step.
1. Buying What Analysts Want Without Considering Other Users
Most people can’t use tools that require too much time, training, or IT intervention.
Tools are only for specialists.
Analysts tend to choose tools that work well for them. But non-specialists need something simpler: InfoApps.
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2. Buying New Data Discovery Tools Without Changing the Excel Mindset
Excel Hell isn’t a place – it’s a way of working.
Enterprise Analytics demands auditable, integrated results derived from trusted and consistent data.
3. Making a BI Purchasing Decision Based on One Hot Feature
Flexibilty and extensibilty matter as much as any single feature.
Don’t buy a feature list. Lay the foundation for a comprehensive BI strategy.
4. Lack of a Concrete Data Quality Strategy
Analysis without trusted data is like gambling without knowing the odds.
Business User IT Professional
Business User IT Professional
Data Profiling Impact Analysis Cause Analysis
Assess Cleanse
Remediate Master
StandardizationEnrichmentData Quality Firewall
Stewardship Monitoring Data Correction
360° View All 4 MDM Styles Multi-Domain
Data is the foundation of analytics. Data quality is the foundation of analytics you can trust.
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5. Not Considering Mobile Users in Your BI Strategy
“I don’t need that on my iPad,” said nobody ever.
Mobile used to be a second-phase item. Now you should be going mobile first.
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6. Ignoring New Data, New Sources, and New Compliance Requirements
Real-time Data Integration
Operational Data
SAP ERP
Data Warehouses Data Marts
Data Warehouses Data Marts
Oracle ERP Hadoop & Columnar
Messages
Web
Machine
Social
SAP ERP
Legacy
Batch Data Integration
Big Data Integration
Application Integration
Information is getting more complicated. Why would your users expect a single source?
Avoid the Six Worst Practices
Learn from the extensive experience of tens of thousands of our customers.
Don’t repeat others’ mistakes.
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