Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing Enterprise Portals

Conclusion

Management styles and organizational structures have changed radically over the past two decades. Gone are the days when a few executives and managers made all the operational decisions. The decentralization of decision making is driving the need for operational and management information throughout organizations, and portals are the delivery vehicle of choice for many business intelligence systems. Successful business intelligence systems share a number of common features. They are fast and easy to understand, which usually means they are designed based on dimensional models. Terms and measures are used consistently throughout the organization, which implies conformed dimensions and conformed facts. Of course, not all operational ...