Chapter 4 The Business Intelligence Environment
We have articulated the value of managing our information as an asset, we have explored the added value that can be derived through instituting business analytics in the organizations, and we have lined up the right senior-level sponsors for our business intelligence (BI) program. Now what? The time has come to discuss a high-level architecture required for implementing the BI program.
Realize that the BI process essentially revolves around the ability to flow large amounts of disparate data into a single repository and then in turn to flow restructured data for decision-support purposes out to data marts and related analytic process, as is seen in Figure 4.1.
Designing the program is the process ...
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