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Nancy Williams

Welcome to the BI Impact Channel for the Business Intelligence Network. The focus of this channel is on what it takes to achieve BI Impact – where BI makes a real difference in business performance. It’s a fact that BI needs to be assimilated into the core value-adding processes of your business in order to make a difference, and this is what creates a range of management challenges. While most businesses have BI capabilities these days, many still struggle with the challenge of fully leveraging these capabilities.

This channel will discuss the business, technical and organizational paradigm shifts that must take place as organizations mature their BI capabilities. Please bookmark this channel as your source for ideas on how to mature your organization’s ability to achieve BI Impact, and please feel free to e-mail me at nancy.williams@decisionpath.com with your comments, questions or concerns.

Articles

Books

The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence  

The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence takes the reader where BI was meant to go. With the focus on BI from a business – not technical – standpoint, this book will help your company plan and execute BI initiatives that will improve profits. Learn more

Newsletters

DecisionPath PERSPECTIVES
Practical Guidance for High Impact Business Intelligence - June 2007 (PDF 70 KB)
Practical Guidance for High Impact Business Intelligence - July 2007 (PDF 87 KB)

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White Papers

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    A ROAD Map for IT/Business Collaboration
    This white paper explains a rules-oriented architecture and application development process for bridging the gaps that exist between IT coding business logic and users driving dynamic applications that assist with or automate their decision making.

    Business Technology at the Crossroads Membership required to view this content
    The Convergence of Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, and Business Rules
    This white paper examines how business intelligence, business rules engines and business process management can best fit together as well as the purpose of each technology independent of the others.

    The Essential Roadmap to ETL Tool Migration Membership required to view this content
    Migrating from one ETL tool to another presents significant challenges to an IT organization. Here is a checklist of ETL migration issues, challenges and questions that an organization should consider and answer before an ETL migration project begins.

    Three Secrets You Need to Know About Enterprise Data Hubs Membership required to view this content
    Consolidating Data Services Can Increase Data Visibility
    This white paper discusses the need for enterprise data hubs, introduces an innovative, flexible framework and illustrates some ways in which some of the largest, data-intensive companies are making use of these enterprise assets.

    On-Demand BI for Insurance Organizations Membership required to view this content
    Learn how to devise a strategy IT executives and data warehouse managers can quickly and effectively deploy to move large volumes of legacy data to UNIX platforms, optimize that data for efficient and timely access, and empower users with pervasive BI.

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Spotlights

    Sid Probstein, Chief Technology Officer of Attivio
    Sid Probstein explains how Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) is powering the next generation of information access, integrating enterprise search and BI capabilities through its unique ability to combine structured data and unstructured content in one universal index.
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    Brad Peters, CEO of Birst
    Brad Peters introduces Birst - an automated, on-demand business intelligence (BI) and analytics tool that simplifies the complexities of BI.
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    Kristian Raue, CEO for Jedox
    Kristian Raue explains how Jedox’s Palo Server offers an alternative to BI solutions, delivering stable, high-end software that is commercially designed, developed and available under an open source license.
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Resources

    Companies

    DecisionPath Consulting
    DecisionPath Consulting is a recognized leader in leveraging business intelligence and data warehousing technologies to drive profit and productivity. DecisionPath Consulting offers a full range of business intelligence consulting support services to commercial and government clients, ranging from strategy development to technical implementation.

    Associations

    The Data Warehousing Institute
    TDWI provides in-depth, high-quality education and research in the business intelligence and data warehousing industry.

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Links

    Education

    Business Requirements for BI Impact
    This course, offered by TDWI at conferences as well as onsite education, provides guidance on how to gather and prioritize business requirements that will support improved business performance. This course highlights how standard approaches used for reporting and operational system requirements need are not effective when it comes to business intelligence.

    The BI Pathway Approach: Delivering BI for Business Value
    This course is offered by TDWI at conferences as well as onsite education. The course introduces the BI Pathway approach to developing high-impact business intelligence capabilities. It includes a proven methodology that strategically aligns and prioritizes a portfolio of business intelligence opportunities that can be delivered using proven data warehousing approaches.

    Upcoming Presentations from DecisionPath
    Nancy Williams and Balanced Scorecard expert Bob Paladino will make a keynote presentation at the upcoming TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas (February 17-22). We invite you to visit the DecisionPath booth at the conference.

     

    Articles

    10 Strategic Technologies for 2009
    Research firm Gartner has revealed its list of the 10 most important strategic technologies for 2009, which includes cloud computing and business intelligence.

    Business Intelligence and On-Demand: The Perfect Marriage?

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Events

Podcasts

    Ian Huckle, CEO, Business & Decision
    Ian Huckle explains that companies are relying more on BI than in the past based on the current economical situation – BI is allowing companies to make the correct investment decision based on their financial situation.
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    BeyePERSPECTIVE - September Show
    The experts divulge if they agreed with the rankings of the The Forrester Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform report, talk about how the new guidelines on mortgages, credit cards and loans are affected financial institution's ability to utilize operational business intelligence and some of the challenges businesses are facing in delivering information at the speed of business.
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    BeyePERSPECTIVE - October Show
    The October show of BeyePERSPECTIVE discusses the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP, the Teradata and SAS partnership and the increase of European companies in the United States.
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