Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications "If you are looking for a complete treatment of business intelligence, then go no further than this book. Larissa T. Moss and Shaku Atre have covered all the bases in a cohesive and logical order, making it easy for the reader to follow their line of thought. From early design to ETL to physical database design, the book ties together all the components of business intelligence." --Bill Inmon, Inmon Enterprises This is the eBook version of the print title. The eBook edition contains the same content as the print edition. You will find instructions in the last few pages of your eBook that directs you to the media files.
Business Intelligence Roadmap is a visual guide to developing an effective business intelligence (BI) decision-support application. This book outlines a methodology that takes into account the complexity of developing applications in an integrated BI environment. The authors walk readers through every step of the process--from strategic planning to the selection of new technologies and the evaluation of application releases. The book also serves as a single-source guide to the best practices of BI projects.
Part I steers readers through the six stages of a BI project: justification, planning, business analysis, design, construction, and deployment. Each chapter describes one of sixteen development steps and the major activities, deliverables, roles, and responsibilities. All technical material is clearly expressed in tables, graphs, and diagrams.
Part II provides five matrices that serve as references for the development process charted in Part I. Management tools, such as graphs illustrating the timing and coordination of activities, are included throughout the book. The authors conclude by crystallizing their many years of experience in a list of dos, don'ts, tips, and rules of thumb.
Both the book and the methodology it describes are designed to adapt to the specific needs of individual stakeholders and organizations. The book directs business representatives, business sponsors, project managers, and technicians to the chapters that address their distinct responsibilities. The framework of the book allows organizations to begin at any step and enables projects to be scheduled and managed in a variety of ways.
Business Intelligence Roadmap is a clear and comprehensive guide to negotiating the complexities inherent in the development of valuable business intelligence decision-support applications. |
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... writing a complete development methodology for BI decision-support projects. We quickly realized that to meet such a goal we would have to produce a multivolume workâsomething not feasible for most project managers and project team ...
... Writing this all-encompassing development guide for BI decision-support applications required extensive knowledge of traditional as well as current information technology (IT) development disciplines. While we have over 50 years of ...
... writing extensions to supplement the capabilities of the ETL tool is frequently required. Step 12: Application Development Once the prototyping effort has firmed up the functional requirements, true development of the access and ...
... writing query scripts, and developing the access and analysis applications BI support (help desk staff) Mentoring and training the business staff Business sponsor Championing the BI initiative and removing business-related roadblocks ...
... Write assessment report Figure 1.4: Business Case Assessment Activities be the result of a lost business opportunity (e.g., lack of access to vital information) or a business problem (e.g., reporting inconsistencies or reliance on dirty ...