For Business Process & Applications Professionals (Length: 12 pages)

February 15, 2007

Death To The BI Data Silo? Not So Fast

by J. Paul Kirby

with Connie Moore, Tom Pohlmann, Shelby Semmes

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

The infamous data silos used for business intelligence (BI) that isolate different business domains and obstruct innovation often deserve their pariah reputation — but not always. The right framework for deciding which silos go to the gallows requires a focus on business processes, looking at the types of decisions that business users will make with a silo's data, instead of a focus on the systems with which they might be integrated. At a minimum, some silos will have to be restructured or consolidated into fewer silos, and they may well need to be transformed into process-focused cross-domain systems.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemData Silos Frustrate Innovation

itemBusiness Intelligence Stands For More Than It Used To

itemProper Silo Analysis Requires A Business Process Focus For BI

itemSilos Cause The Most Problems For Strategic Decision-Making

itemTactical Decisions Require Both Aggregated And Detailed Data

itemOperational Decisions Require Minute-To-Minute Access, Making Silos More Tolerable

itemRealign People And Data To Maximize BI Benefits

recommendations

itemRestructuring Silos Requires A Transformation To Process-Centric BI

WHAT IT MEANS

itemProcess-Centric BI Requires Technology to Be Simple

Forrester spoke with approximately 35 organizations about their experiences with data silos and their effect on business user decision-making.

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Technology: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Information & Knowledge Management
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America
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