Chapter 1

The Challenge of Managing and Leading the Enterprise BI/DW Program

Abstract

Enterprise business intelligence and data warehousing (EBI/EDW) has historically been a very difficult proposition, for a number of reasons. This chapter explores these many reasons to set the context for how strong program management can overcome these challenges in today’s and tomorrow’s initiatives.

Keywords

Data
Big Data
business intelligence
BI
analytics
predictive analytics
program manager
program management
project manager
project management
challenges
data warehouse
data warehousing
enterprise data warehouse
EDW

Chapter introduction

We began the book’s Preface with a question, and we will do the same in this first chapter. Our question to now ...

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