Assessing BI Readiness: A Key To BI ROI

Historically, many data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) initiatives have been IT-driven, and much of the focus within the industry has been on the technical aspects of delivering information to the BI user community. Having arrived at a point where many of the technical challenges and trade-offs are at least well understood, attention has shifted toward expanding the ways in which BI can be used to deliver business value and to enhancing BI development methods to ensure that BI investments pay off.