The New Era of Enterprise Business Intelligence: Using Analytics to Achieve a Global Competitive Advantage

Chapter 14. Implementation of Business Intelligence Solutions

Now we are finally to the point where we are proposing to do some actual BI work. I want to make a few assumptions here before we begin. First, this is a new BI project with a new BI tool that we are using for the first time. Second, we have a BICC in place with responsibilities that extend beyond product evaluation and recommendation. Third, I assume this to be a new group of end users and not some who’ve become disenchanted with another tool...no built-in prejudices here. Fourth, I assume that the product has been properly evaluated, and we know that the necessary features and functions have been verified by the vendor and BICC. Finally, we have a series of processes and procedures ...