
The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence

addition, specialized expertise in the selected tools and technologies is needed to ensure that the tools are installed, configured, and used as intended.
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
Industry players segment the market into what might be called macro-categories, for
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
order-to-cash cycle time: the total elapsed time between when a customer’s order was received and when payment was received for the order.
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
The incoming source data is typically very detailed and is often referred to as “atomic-level data.”
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
and how it would generate the incremental revenue and/or reduced costs from the BI-driven process change.
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
In our experience, the low end of BI annual investments by major companies in a variety of industries falls between $1 million and $5 million for departmental or functional BI investments.
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
the job of the BI architectures is to provide the foundation for delivering business information that works together and provides a “single version of the truth” that guides actions that improve business performance.
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
For example, we worked with a client several years ago who was used to generating a campaign mailing list from valid names in a database. To improve the response rate and reduce the marketing costs associated with obtaining a response, a BI application was developed to support customer segmentation analysis and to generate a targeted list of high-p
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operates a dedicated technical environment for BI. The environment contains servers, an RDBMS, an ETL tool, and a query and reporting tool. There are separate technical environments for development, test, and production, so each environment can be optimized for its role.