Craft Your Future State BI Reference Architecture

November 1st, 2012

Boris Evelson Vice President, Principal Analyst

With contributors:

Stephen Powers , Brian Hopkins , Michele Goetz , Gene Leganza , Leslie Owens , Paul D. Hamerman , Henry Peyret , Shannon Coyne

Summary

In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate asset for competitive differentiation. BI stakeholders — such as project managers, developers, data architects, enterprise architects, database administrators, and data quality specialists — may find the myriad of choices and constant influx of new business requirements overwhelming. Forrester's BI reference architecture provides a framework with architectural patterns and building blocks to guide these BI stakeholders in managing BI strategy and architecture.

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