Corporate Direction in BI

Data is the asset of an organization and making sense out of the data is invaluable for an organization. Each organization will decide its own BI strategy that is aligned with the business strategy and goals.The fundamental of a successful BI environment is based on the ability to maintain tight management over the data warehouse architecture while making the best use of information.

I stumbled upon a good article written by Prashant Pant , a senior Deloitte BI Consultant which point out the 10 essential components of a successful BI Strategy. I found a particular interesting point he highlighted which is called the metadata roadmap. This is so due to the nature of my work to address any potential impacts in a new project or a new enhancement to the existing system. It stated that metadata explains how, why and where the data can be found, retrieved, stored and used in an information management system. Metadata management like the one my company is having for infoobjects is crucial especially when the objects are shared across different BI systems. The attributes has to be correctly set to the master data and is able to differentiate the disparate systems. If not there won't be a single version of truth and user's would be confuse with the reported numbers when they examine granular data in different ways.

Check out Prashant's article