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Business Intelligence Competency Centers (BICC) received a lot of attention last year. Now, many organizations are in the process of starting to set up a BICC to support their ever-growing BI environments but are having difficulty getting funding and garnering support for it. I am pleased that this week's newsletter contains an article written by my friend, Karien Verhagen of the Netherlands, in which she outlines in detail her experience in setting up a BICC up as a profit center. This change in perspective and organization circumvents many of the problems and support difficulties others have encountered. It is a well thought-out argument filled with examples and practical advice. I am sure you will find it as persuasive and compelling as I did.
Also featured in this issue is Dr. Ramon Barquin's article – Activity-Based Costing, Government and Business Intelligence.
Please continue to use the Business Intelligence Network as your premier source for information regarding business intelligence, performance management, information quality and data warehousing.
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Exploiting a Business Intelligence Infrastructure in a Business Intelligence Competency Center as a Profit Center
by Karien Verhagen
This article presents several principles for running a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) as a profit center.
Activity-Based Costing, Government and Business Intelligence
by Ramon Barquin
An activity-based costing approach provides transparency in allocating costs back to processes and expended resources, and thus allows for analysis of the drivers and comparison of the resources used.
The Business Case for Pre-Built Business Intelligence Applications
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Best Practices for Pervasive BI
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Did you know that the wealth of content on the Business Intelligence Network is also presented in specific industry sectors, allowing you to navigate directly to the channel that represents your industry? Each channel features timely articles, news, events and other resources, and each channel leader is a seasoned practitioner, well-versed in the challenges and solutions for that industry. The featured channel this week is Government, led by Ramon Barquin. Dr. Barquin is the President of Barquin International, a consulting firm. He specializes in developing information systems strategies, particularly data warehousing, customer relationship management, business intelligence and knowledge management, for public and private sector enterprises. He has consulted for the U.S. Military, many government agencies and international governments and corporations. Dr. Barquin is a member of the E-Gov (Electronic Government) Advisory Board, and chair of its knowledge management conference series; member of the Digital Government Institute Advisory Board; and has been the Program Chair for E-Government and Knowledge Management programs at the Brookings Institution. He was also the co-founder and first president of The Data Warehousing Institute, and president of the Computer Ethics Institute.
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