The Benefits of Business Intelligence Standardization: Why Should You Standardize Your Business Intelligence Tools?

Topics:
Business Intelligence
Tags:
Benefit,
Standardization,
Software,
Pricing,
Marketing,
Management,
Enterprise Software,
Databases,
Data Management,
Business Intelligence Standardization,
...
Source:
Business Objects

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Overview: As Gartner notes, "At most companies, the problems of fragmentation and proliferation of disparate Business Intelligence (BI) tools have been exacerbated during the past two years." Faced with these problems of BI fragmentation, organizations are moving quickly to implement BI standards. BI standardization involves costs and change management, but as Jacqueline Coolidge, of AMR Research notes, the bottom line is that ?The standardization of BI tools is building momentum as companies realize the long-term gain will outweigh the short-term pain of rationalization.? This document will outline the many costs, frustration and confusion associated with a lack of BI standards. And these costs are increasing as BI becomes increasingly strategic, and more widely deployed.

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Format: PDF | Size: 408KB | Date: Oct 2005 | Pages: 10


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