Chapter 6. The Impact of Business Intelligence on Roles within the Enterprise

Regardless of what your plan, vision, or current BI situation happens to be, it is a given that there will be a variety of users with different skills and requirements. However, I have found few clients who attempt to segment their end users into specific categories and manage this accordingly.

Many modern BI tools offer a variety of roles and charge by type of user as well as other variations, such as a processor-based method. If we set aside cost factors and assume that you can have an “all you can eat” environment, would you just hand out user seats with maximum functional capability? Or, would you still dole out user seats that are appropriate to the actual skill ...

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