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Operational Reporting

In the last quarter of 2007, I had listed Operational reporting as a leading BI project for 2008 across the industry. Though I have no official surveys to check against, the feeling from the industry is that more companies are seeing the need for operational reporting and there is one project somewhere in the organization which is an operational reporting project.

As companies start doing more operational reporting, there are a few issues that come to mind

1. Data quality
2. Data consistency
3. Data completeness
4. Metadata
5. Master Data (of any kind)

All of the above play a role in the operational reporting process. Data quality covers bullets 2 and 3 in its own space. But if you have metadata and master data related needs, they are critical components to the success of your operational reporting.

Bottom line, we need to draw attention to the fact that you need organizational data alignment and a data governance committee that can really drive the process. As we move forward in the BI space, please bear in mind that your data drives your business. Having a good data strategy is critical to all the BI projects in your organization.

There are a number of books, whitepapers, articles on this subject and I encourage your to read up on this subject, no matter what level of maturity you are at in your BI projects.

  Posted by kkrishnan on March 31, 2008 6:28 PM |

Comments

Hi Krish

I need more information about this. If you have please provide me.

Thanks
Ram

Posted by: Ram | May 16, 2008 12:37 PM

Krish,

In spite of all the attention to topics like MDM, Governance, SOA , Metadata most of the clients I have worked with still have major gaps in operational reporting capabilities. The ERP reporting modules/tools are not as flexible as some of the BI tools. Even with the best of tools the underlying architecture for operational reporting has to developed first always being mindful of not taxing the production system too much. Some of them have tried table/log file replication. In spite of the digitization of most data in companies the single most important issue is unlocking all of the data.

Posted by: Kary Kalapanda | August 18, 2008 9:08 AM

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