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The Road to BI Success

by SAP (June 9, 2010)

This IDC analyst paper outlines the benefits of business intelligence (BI) and helps organizations evaluate the effectiveness of their current strategy. This is a concise Q&A style paper, written from an end user perspective and authored by Dan Vesset. The paper provides practical advice about the benefits of an end-to-end strategy, IDC's methodology for assessing an organization's BI competency, and how organizations can get started.

Dan Vesset is program vice president of IDC’s Business Analytics research. His research is currently focused on the business intelligence and analytic applications markets, which encompass multidimensional analysis, end-user query and reporting, data mining, and other related business intelligence tools as well as supply chain and operational analytic applications.

Read this white paper to learn:

  • What are the benefits of a business intelligence solution
  • What is the value of a BI strategy to a process that is composed of many incremental BI projects
  • What are the factors to consider when creating a BI strategy
  • What are the steps companies should take to determine their current levels of BI need or effectiveness

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