6 articles in this selection

2009/07/17

Most companies approach restructuring as a one-time-only activity in which an army of analysts tries to reconcile financial structures from organizational hierarchies, to budgets, to the accounts themselves. The fact is these activities aren't just part of high-profile M&A events. They occur every year as companies go through their annual budget processes. During a corporate restructuring the process usually takes longer than the acquisition itself....

2009/07/15

Implementing BI standards requires a pragmatic, phased approach that takes into account the organizational realities of large organizations, and the business value of existing BI applica­tions.This post gives an overview of the advantages of implementing BI standards, and takes a look at some of the real-life, best practice techniques used by industry leaders. Read on to learn how successful organizations have standardized on business intelligence - and why you should join them....

2009/07/13

While there are several ways in which impact of the data quality can be highlighted to the organization, following are some practical examples which I have found to be easy to use while communicating soft ROI or impact of data quality on individual business units....

2009/07/13

What if you have five data intensive projects that are all in need of your very valuable resources for improving data quality? How do you decide where to focus? The choice is not always clear. Management may be interested in accurate reporting from your data warehouse, but revenue may be at stake in other projects. So, just how do you decide where to start?...

2009/06/29

From a Gartner Article titled 'Justifying BPM Projects' * Organizations had more than 90% success rates on their BPM projects * Successful projects had no less than 10% internal rate of return * 78% had more than 15% [a few 'wild numbers' exceeded 100%] * 77% of the projects had returns greater than $100k per project * 55% of the projects had returns in the $100k - $500k range * 80% of the respondents felt an increase in competitive advantage...

2009/06/16

Last week’s post about QlikView 9.0 prompted an inquiry from a manager who has been trying for a year to convince his company to consider the product. Having run into this issue many times, I easily felt his pain and we speculated a bit on what might help things along. One obvious tactic would be to purchase QlikView on a pay-as-you-go basis, presumably cloud-based. But a quick check with QlikView confirmed that they don’t allow this and have no plans to change....