At the TDWI Europe Conference, I gave a three-hour presentation on agile business intelligence. Therefore, I have a view on the definition and meaning of agile BI.
Of 103 respondents “…34% of survey respondents need a more agile analytics solution because of the increasing need for managers to make decisions anytime, anywhere.” — David White (Aberdeen)
On 19-June-2013 at 14:45, I will give a presentation on 25 techniques, guidelines, and skills useful for agile Business Intelligence at the TDWI European Conference. The topics for the presentation are outlined in Figure 1
Marketing is one of the departments whose effective use of business intelligence and analytics can have a direct impact on the organization’s top line revenue, a tier one-performance measure.
In my view, that BI & Analytics contribute to organizational performance with three different levels of importance. Tier 1: Business Metrics — Are we contributing to profitable revenue growth? Tier 2: User Productivity — Are we impacting the user productivity? Tier 3: IT Productivity — Are we more efficient in our IT operations? In this… Continue reading Business Intelligence & Analytics Tier 3 Performance IT Productivity
When I price a project, the last thing I want to do is inform the customer that we need additional money to deliver the same scope. It somehow defies logic to pay additional money before seeing any benefits from an initial investment. However, repeatedly this is what happens in information technology (IT) projects.
Analytical functionality integrated with existing and deployed business applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning or Customer Relationship Management applications is referred to as Embedded Analytics or Embedded Business Intelligence (BI).
In my view, that BI & Analytics contribute to organizational performance with three different levels of importance. Tier 1: Business Metrics — Are we contributing to profitable revenue growth? Tier 2: User Productivity — Are we impacting the user productivity? Tier 3: IT Productivity — Are we more efficient in our IT operations? In this… Continue reading Business Intelligence & Analytics Tier 2 Performance User Productivity
Issue 10 of Today’s Software Magazine has an article on “Going Agile” that provides an overview of the content of the book, excerpts related to cost management in agile projects, and do’s and don’ts on going agile. I will present the content of the article on on 04-April-2013 @ 19:30 .
Today, Federico Bellani released his research on the Adoption and Evolution of Agile Method Practices. The research is an extensive litature review supported by survey results from 194 worldwide participants and extensive survey analysis. Some of his findings on agile practices fall inline with the results from the VersionOne annual survey on the state of… Continue reading Federico Bellani on “Adoption and Evolution of Agile Practices Over Time”