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5 Business Intelligence Project Mistakes to Avoid Part 5: No IT and End User Communication
Lack of Communication between IT and End Users. Business Intelligence solutions should appeal to both the IT department and end users.
How to Transform Data into Intelligence that Promotes Growth
Most businesses have the ability to capture data from customer transactions and day-to-day operations, and through research. However, the significant problem after accumulating data is how to turn the data into intelligence that can improve the bottom line. A major issue that businesses battle with when analyzing data is TIME. With so many other crucial activities it becomes difficult to allocate time to analyzing complicated data. This situation is even worse when a business has to battle with limited resources, including staff constraints. Then, too, there are cases when different departments must consolidate data into one critical report—an extremely cumbersome process.
5 Business Intelligence Project Mistakes to Avoid Part 4: Inadequate Training
Insufficient Training For Business Intelligence projects to be successful it is important that users: both IT and end users feel comfortable with using the implemented solution. Solution: All users who will be directly using the BI software solution need to be trained and have access to up-to-date manuals to help them get acquainted with the product.
5 Business Intelligence Project Mistakes to Avoid Part 3: Reports that Take Hours to Run
Business Intelligence software solution providers usually promise a better reporting system for organizations. However waiting for long hours for a report to run can make business intelligence projects ineffective.
5 Business Intelligence Project Mistakes to Avoid Part 2: Long Business Intelligence Migrations
Business Intelligence projects are supposed to offer a quick solution that help organizations to make better informed decisions, attain data security, and discover ways to increase profitability. However, when BI implementations become never-ending, (near-completion projects), they give employees more work than usual.
5 Business Intelligence Project Mistakes to Avoid: Part 1 – Abandoning Spreadsheets
Forcing users to stop using Excel or other spreadsheet applications is one of the top reasons why Business Intelligence projects fail. End users who are love to use spreadsheets are faced with the problem of having to adjust to using a new Business Intelligence software solution that does not work well with Excel.
Mobile Business Intelligence: Must Have or Nice to Have?
Mobility in business intelligence (BI) has gone from being a nice-to-have option to become an ultimate necessity for many businesses. Organizations that choose Business Intelligence solutions with mobile features could gain a competitive advantage over others with the ability to make informed decisions.
3 Simply Brilliant Questions to Ask a Business Intelligence Vendor
List of 3 important but simple non technical questions to ask a Business Intelligence vendor when choosing a Business Intelligence software solution.
Say No! To a Lifetime of Business Intelligence (BI) Migration
The technical process of moving from Spreadsheets to Business Intelligence (BI) Software Solutions seem complicated and never ending to many users. How can Businesses make Business Intelligence Migrations, easy, quick and painless?
The Naked Data Disaster
What is naked data? Naked data is information that is unprocessed, raw and messy. If we want to obtain real visualized data, it should be organized and formed— it should be meaningful it should be visualized. Data Visualization is “information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information.”