Book description
Making business intelligence work: Start-to-finish guidance for managers
This book offers a true enterprise view of business intelligence. IBM expert Mike Biere shows managers how to create a coherent BI plan that reflects the needs of users throughout the organization-and then implement that plan successfully. Biere explains how to objectively assess the business case for BI, and identifies proven solutions for the obstacles that lead many BI projects to fail. Coverage includes:
Setting appropriate expectations and goals for your BI project
Understanding how the key components of a complete BI solution fit together
Designing effective BI solutions-including content management, handling unstructured data, and end-user segmentation
Providing effective support for BI end users
Introducing Corporate Performance Management (CPM): an executive's view of BI
Previewing tomorrow's "next wave" in BI solutions
Comprehensive checklists for planning your BI project
Table of contents
- Copyright
- IBM DB2 Certification Guide Series
- 1. Introduction to Business Intelligence
- 2. Defining Business Intelligence
- 3. The History of Business Intelligence
- 4. The Impact of Business Intelligence
- 5. Content Management and Unstructured Data
- 6. End-User Segmentation
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7. Elements of Business Intelligence Solutions
- Data Warehouse versus Data Marts
- Setting Up Information for BI Processing
- Data Extraction, Transformation, and Cleansing
- The Data Side of BI
- The Analytics Tools
- End-User Assumptions about Tools
- The Spreadsheet's Role in BI
- The Three Major Categories of BI Analytics Tools
- Query and Reporting Tools
- Time and Date Elements in Reporting
- OLAP Tools
- Data Mining Tools
- Advanced Analytics—Executive Information Systems (EIS)
- 8. Justifying Business Intelligence Solutions
- 9. Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and the Executive View of Business Intelligence
- 10. Platform Selection, Technology Biases, and Other “Traps”
- 11. End-User Support and Productivity
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12. Implementation for Business Intelligence Solutions
- Back Up and Restore What You Have Already Done
- System Sizing, Measurements, and Dependencies
- Setting Early Expectations and Measuring the Results
- End-User Provisos
- Recap the First Project, and Tune Your Support and Implementation Models
- OLAP Implementations
- Expanding BI Based on What You Now Know
- Establishing a BI Competency Center (BICC)
- 13. Planning for the Future—What's the Next Wave of Business Intelligence?
- A. Checklist for BI Planning
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Business Intelligence for the Enterprise
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2003
- Publisher(s): IBM Press
- ISBN: 9780131413030
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