Business Requirements For BI And The BI Portfolio: How To Get It Right

More and more companies are learning the hard way that BI business requirements for business intelligence (BI) are not something to be taken lightly. After paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees for generic BI requirements, or after spending months generating traditional report requirements and functional specifications, major companies in many different industries have discovered that these approaches suffer from three primary deficiencies: They do not provide the basis for a compelling business case that business leaders buy into, one that clearly articulates how BI will be used within specific business processes to improve business performance.