Blog: William McKnight

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Owning business intelligence: Collaborating to create an active user community

Many business intelligence (BI) programs have delivered a solid initial rollout, but program managers find challenges in getting beyond those first targets. Often the methods that ushered in the early ROI plan are too free-flowing and unmanageable when users are counting on the data warehouse for production needs. And once the concept is proven, recouping the investment requires a rollout beyond the initial set of core users. However, prospective users of BI require more than a well-built infrastructure in order to convert them to daily users. Attracting users—which is required for success—can be a difficult and elongated process.

For the rest of this article I wrote that's in the latest Teradata Magazine, please see http://www.teradata.com/t/go.aspx/index.html?id=144984. Feel free to comment on it here.

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