Foreword

In today’s highly competitive and increasingly uncertain world, the quality and timeliness of an organization’s “business intelligence” (BI) can mean not only the difference between profit and loss but even the difference between survival and bankruptcy.

In helping senior executives and information technology (IT) managers, Moss and Atre’s greatest contribution, I believe, is the comprehensive nature of their “roadmap”; as the subtitle of their book promises, they have provided a complete project lifecycle for the development of such systems. Because BI and decision-support systems ultimately rely on a rich treasure trove of data, there is a significant emphasis in Business Intelligence Roadmap on various technical aspects of data: ...

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