Successful business intelligence solutions are much more than implementing tools and technologies. We equate success with providing a value-added business intelligence environment to the user community. We believe that success is inevitable when the right tools and technologies are embedded within the right business context. Only then will your users realize the maximum advantage of your solution. But what do we mean by “value added?” Don’t all business intelligence solutions fundamentally provide additional value in the form of self-service access to information without requiring programming or specialized technical skills? That, we believe, is what a business intelligence solution must provide at a minimum. To us, a business intelligence solution adds value when it fulfills that minimum requirement and additionally provides “building blocks” that make the end-user more productive and aware of business performance. Building blocks include metadata, report templates, business analytics (pre-defined metrics which measure business performance), managed reports, executive dashboards and much more. With these building blocks, you empower the user to use the BI solution as an enabler for business process improvements and much more.
- Requirements Analysis Blueprints
- Source-to-target ETL Blueprints
- Subject Area Specific Data Model Blueprints for financials, budgeting, procurement, and student management
- Business Intelligence Categories and Security Blueprints
- Testing and Validation Blueprints
Six Steps to Business Intelligence Success
To create a value-added BI environment, we encourage our clients to think top-down. Ask yourself: what do we want to measure, how will we get from here to there, what technologies will we use, and then create the building blocks that are required. At Entigence, we use our Six Steps to BI Success methodology to create successful BI solutions.
