I couldn't resist another winter themed post on Business Intelligence.
While those of us who are less technically inclined may enjoy the picture below, those who design and develop data marts and data warehouses are very familiar with both the snowflake and star schema.
One popular truth regarding snowflakes is that no two snowflakes are identical. When it comes to Business Intelligence, no two organization's needs are identical either.
Enjoy the winter beauty of stars and snowflakes this season - and let us take care of data structure underpinning your Business Intelligence solution. You'll be happy you did!
Self-service BI is not just a buzz-word. It is an approach to analytics that enables business users to analyze organizational information (i.e. create reports, make dash boards, perform ad-hoc analysis, configure alerts). IT resources are not required on a continual basis to support end users, but rather only to set up the back-end (i.e. the data warehouse/data marts and related cubes underpinning the business intelligence system). Further, if an existing back-end solution is available, IT may not be required at all!
Top 7 Benefits of Achieving Self-Service BI:
- Enable business users to create personalized reports and conduct analysis without IT involvement
- Free IT resources to focus on other tasks
- Improve organizational decision making
- Increase responce time to changes in the business environment
- Improve allocation of resources
- Reduce organizational risk
- Improve organizational results
Tell me, just how many executives, business analysts and other BI end users are excited by the deep technical knowledge and time it takes to properly develop and maintain the backend of a BI solution, namely a data warehouse, the extract, transform and load (ETL) processes and finally the cubes themselves? But without a good backend for your BI solution, even the best dashboarding and BI/analytics solution available (i.e. TARGIT BI) will not be able to provide the information that your organization needs to for analysis and effective performance management.
TimeXtender simplifies the administration of the BI backend so that your organization can realize the value of its chosen analytics/visualization solution.
This is also part of the reason Jet Reports partnered with TimeXtender in their Jet Enterprise offering. Read the interview with Joe Little, President of Jet Reports, here.
