The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence

Without knowing it, they use the wrong approaches to design and develop their DW environments, which results in mistakes that compromise quality and performance.

meet those changing needs, companies’ business designs must change. Customers give their business to the companies whose business designs best meets their needs, thus creating value migration from obsolete business designs to more effective business designs.

Such case studies are available from TDWI (www.tdwi.org) and other sources.

dedicated technical specialists who have general expertise in techniques that are needed to successfully design and implement the BI environment.

The challenges of operating in a highly regulated industry, which drives claims processing and systems requirements that reduce operational flexibility.

Different methods and standards were used, and the overall BI architecture was not well integrated.

BI platform vendors include Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy, and MicroSoft.

Accordingly, the company has embarked on a BI program aimed at providing all levels of operations management with more timely and relevant business information, as well as with appropriate analytical tools so that managers can consistently improve productivity and service.

By bringing point-of-sale data into a BI environment, retailers can understand product-level demand trends and how they vary by relevant dimensions such as geography and service area demographics.