1.1. Sharing Business Intelligence

Because you are reading this book, you are probably the keeper of some type of information that is important to your organization. You may have information on sales, finance, production, delivery—or one of a hundred other areas. All this information makes up the business intelligence necessary to keep today's corporate, academic, and governmental entities humming along.

1.1.1. The Need to Share

In addition to maintaining this information, you also have a need to share this information with others. This need to share may have come from an important lesson you learned in kindergarten ("The world would be a much happier place if we all learned to share") or, more likely, this need to share your information was ...

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