Financing the BI Project: Custom or Packaged? Which Solution is Best?
This series has to date been looking at various options that exist for implementing your Business Intelligence solution. Today we look at some insights on which type of solution is best. For Business Intelligence which type of solution is best will ultimately depend on individual business circumstances. The solution type assessment that has been discussed [...]
Financing the BI Solution: The Corporate Architecture and Complexity of Data Links
This series is looking at the financial factors of building your BI solution. Most larger corporations today already have some form of business intelligence in place so the interest here may be more in applying these principles to upgrading your solution. Yet surprisingly there are always greenfield solutions being applied is some corner of the [...]
BI Project Decisions: Ready Made Database Options
There are broadly two types of ready-made Data Warehouse available, these are: A full data model, usually linked closely with an operational application. SAP, Peoplesoft, Siebel and other software suppliers provide Data Warehouses linked with their ERP and CRM applications. An industry ‘template’ that provides a basic model Data Warehouse relating to the industry sector [...]
Financing the Business Intelligence Project (Buy or Build?)
In order to finance the project it is necessary to decide how the underlying Data Warehouse is to be created. This means the Project Board will need to decide: Whether to use a ready-made solution or have it custom built What degree of external staffing resources are required This is the first part in a [...]
The Data Warehouse Must be Included within the Disaster Recovery Plan as a Critical System!
It was a flood on the famous River Thames in the suburban town of Staines just outside London England nearly 20 years ago that originally got me thinking about the impact of a disaster on a business. Through regular checks on proximity of water to the air-conditioner unit we knew that that we were just [...]
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