Best Practices in Defining Business Intelligence Software Requirements

The process of collecting Business Intelligence software requirements from the business is typically done in an ad hoc manner, and usually leaves both IT and business frustrated – IT struggles to get a clear and comprehensive view of business requirements, and business users always come up with something new after the system has already been designed. Rework is expensive and time consuming, and can lead to missed project go-live dates that delay the ROI on the Business Intelligence software project.

What if there was a way to develop a model of the business relationships between entities that the business wants to analyze, and a way to turn that model into a physical structure? And what if this was an iterative environment, so when the business creates new requirements, or the original meaning changes, you could easily capture those changes and regenerate the physical structures?

This is the way defining and deploying Business Intelligence requirements should be.

Using patent pending technology, the Kalido Business Information Modeler provides a graphical design interface that can be used to develop and refine business requirements for new and existing information. Instead of modeling data and their structures, the Kalido Business Information Modeler allows you to model the actual parts of your business; customers, products, assets, transactions, even people – and define how you want to see information in context. Even better, the Kalido Business Information Modeler can be used to change and update your model directly against the Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse, allowing you ultimate flexibility in meeting the information needs of your business. The Kalido Business Information Modeler dramatically improves your ability to meet the needs of your business when it requires it – not when how it’s stored determines it.