What’s Behind Your BI?
Understanding Your Business Intelligence Infrastructure
The promise of Business Intelligence is still unfulfilled. According to a Gartner study, only 36% of CIOs believe their management is using the right information to run the business. According to research from the Economist Intelligence Unit, only 4% of senior IT and business leaders are very satisfied with their company’s data integration and analysis. When asked about BI, 72% of senior IT and business leaders say their data is still inconsistent across departments, and 40% said their workers made poor decisions because of it.
A main reason for this disillusionment with BI is due to a business intelligence infrastructure that includes disparate data sources with no common view that drag down BI effectiveness. The current IT reality in most firms is a business intelligence infrastructure filled with different systems, sources, formats and structures that yield conflicting data. That means decision-making becomes based on subjective opinion rather than real data.
Another reason is it takes too much manual maintenance and effort to re-architect for different scenarios. IT has to support different tools and spreadsheets, with all changes made manually, and real in-depth re-engineering is required every time the business model changes.
Finally, custom built warehouses require constant re-architecting and limited views of data. The vast majority of changes to data warehouses take four weeks or more, and only the rare few can be accomplished in under one week.
The Kalido solution overcomes these hurdles.
- It enforces data warehousing best practices, accommodating the teachings of both Kimball and Inmon for data warehouse design and management.
- It provides a business model-driven approach that not only makes it easy to collect requirements from the business, but also generates the physical structures which then can be controlled from the model, dramatically reducing the need for custom coding.
- It delivers workflow-driven master data stewardship, controllable not only by a browser-based interface, but also with a comprehensive API, for the ultimate in flexibility to meet your organization’s toughest data governance processes.
- It streamlines the ability to support large numbers of BI tool users so their reports stay up to date. Kalido’s business model-driven backend extends out to drive the creation and maintenance of popular BI tool structures such as Cognos and Business Objects from Kalido metadata.
With Kalido behind your BI:
- IT can manage changes with a visual business modeler
- Manual tasks are automated, eliminating costly custom code
- Changes are captured, providing unmatched auditability
The result: faster, more accurate information, for more uses and more users, supported by a technology that helps IT respond to change when the business changes.
