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Business intelligence is not on the way out … but ETL may be
Recent references to business intelligence being on the way out (examples here and here) may be a result of misinterpreting what Gartner said about business intelligence competency centers being dead. Probably everyone agrees that business intelligence itself is not on the way out. It is evolving from the traditional data warehouse and single version of truth to…
Scaling agile in enterprise-wide data warehousing projects
Agile software development is most often associated with small companies and small development teams. The very fact that agile teams should have no more than about a dozen members sets limitations that lead us to question the possibility of doing large enterprise data warehousing projects in an agile manner. Despite the limitations, agile can nevertheless…
Data is the basis for both business processes and business intelligence
This year’s Business process management conference hosted several discussions about the (non)connectivity between business processes in companies with business intelligence. The theme was introduced by a professor from the Zagreb Economic Faculty who presented research into this area with a case study and concluded with a round table of IT managers from various local companies. More…
Path to a successful CRM organization
The fact that an organization is aware that they want CRM doesn’t necessarily mean that it is ready to implement it. Critical success factors, organizational changes and business process adjustments must be considered before embarking on the new journey. — Article published in Sistem April 2002, p. 18.
Few companies embrace business intelligence
Maja Ferle, business intelligence consultant at SRC.SI, says that the anticipated entry of foreign competition after Slovenia joined the European Union that would spur the need for business intelligence hasn’t happened. “Companies still don’t believe that they could gain a competitive advantage by using business intelligence solutions and thus be a step ahead in the…
The future of data warehousing is agile
According to many sources, agile data warehousing is the way to go in the future. Recently, Larissa Moss spoke about this topic at the TDWI conference in Munich, Germany in her session Extreme Scoping: Agile approach for enterprise-class EDW/BI. The main point of her session was the importance of the availability of data that is clearly understood…
