Business Intelligence
Enviado por japerez19 • 21 de Noviembre de 2013 • 795 Palabras (4 Páginas) • 238 Visitas
The Business Value of Successful Business Intelligence
So why would an organization endeavor to implement a strategic business intelligence
program? It appears that there are, in fact, many organizations that have
Introduction
various tactical implementations that are quite successful. Is it not just about
using a technology in the areas that are needed?
It is true that a technology should be applied to the areas it can enable. However,
most organizations—due to their tactical implementations of BI to
date—have not yet realized the mission-critical value that BI can provide to the
reaction time, monitoring, and predictive ability that can be found in a successful
implementation. The ability to measure and monitor how organizations are executing
against corporate goals—to understand whether they are on or off track
and why—and the ability to change direction when necessary has not yet been
enabled due to the limitations of the current environment.
If we were to compare this situation with other, more mature technologies that
are considered mission-critical in today’s organizations—let’s take e-mail, for
example—would it be efficient, productive, and cost-effective to have pockets of
employees on a variety of different e-mail systems, some of which might not
integrate or communicate effectively with others? How would this situation
impact the productivity of an organization’s work force?
Consider a customer view: if the information is siloed across various departments,
how can a consistent view be understood and accessed to provide the best
possible service to the party in question with tactical silos of information? Is it
productive to manually pull together this information? Is it accurate? Efficient?
We believe that a strategic, enterprise business intelligence program offers
higher value to our companies, especially in today’s fast-paced, changing
environment.
● First, it can reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for IT and increase
the return on investment (ROI) for software and hardware. It also
increases the amount of time IT can spend on strategic work rather than
duplicate manual labor. This creates increased IT efficiency.
● Second, it can leverage the IT infrastructure and a set of skills to give
business users direct access to enterprise-wide information so they can
make critical decisions. This increases the company’s overall productivity
and business efficiency.
● Last, and best of all, a successful BI program can increase collaboration
and leverage the decision-support structure across the enterprise to
increase overall business effectiveness. This includes a better utilization of
resources, a critical consistent view of reliable data across the entire
The Business Value of Successful Business Intelligence
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