An IT strategist and Enterprise Architects reflection..
PART 1 – The Swamp
I have been working more deeply in the field of Business Intelligence for some months now and I came to a conclusion, which I had just been sensing before: Business Intelligence tragically lives its own life!
Two traditional BI developers trying to find the data for a requested report
- Despite its enterprise nature, BI lives outside Enterprise Architecture
- Despite its dedicated BI purpose, the BI platforms become application platforms
- Despite its strategic nature, BI is lacking strategies
- Despite of it specific nature and high business value, BI developments are either done without structured methodology, or with methodologies not really intended for the case of BI
- Despite the urgent needs for enterprise master data solutions, Master data is implemented isolated in the BI solution, just for the sake of cleaning data, not for any other purpose
- Despite its well-structured original business, the business doesn’t add any structure to the BI development processes
- Further development and changes taking longer than they should
- Too much dependency on individuals
- Unforeseen risks with changes
- High operations and maintenance cost
- Business disconnected from steering and control
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Transform mindset
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.. to be continued ..