Chapter 5
The Business Intelligence Environment
Organizations are outgrowing their strictly operational environment and are evolving their analytical capabilities, especially with the need to ensure high levels of performance for the numerous cross-functional activities. Reporting and analytics is an essential necessity in any performance-oriented organization. Concurrent with the growing recognition of the need for analytics is the maturation of an enterprise framework supporting the business intelligence (BI) needs of the user communities.
In competitive organizations, the demands of the different types of BI users go beyond a straightforward capability for reporting and delivery of canned reports and occasional notifications. What began as ...
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