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What makes a BI Centre of Excellence Work?

Posted by John Vaughan
John Vaughan
Managing Director at InfoCube, dad of 3 boys, rugby fan, photographer, reader - not much time for much else!
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on Thursday, 22 March 2012
in Business

What makes a successful BI Centre of Excellence or BI Competency Centres as they are commonly known?  We were recently asked this and came up with the following.

 

Just Buying Software Does Not Add Value

Posted by John Vaughan
John Vaughan
Managing Director at InfoCube, dad of 3 boys, rugby fan, photographer, reader - not much time for much else!
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on Thursday, 06 October 2011
in Business

Interesting stuff...  It's not the software that doesn't deliver, but rather the lack of internal ability to interpret business need and translate into IT speak, or just translating "what we've always done" from paper reports to business intelligence systems - what better ways to doom your BI project from the start...