Delivering Self-Service Business Intelligence

Self-service BI shifts the emphasis away from the processes required to manage data in a centralized store and toward a process for finding, accessing and integrating pertinent information as needed. With self-service BI, decision makers are better able to respond to changes in business conditions quickly.

The focus of this paper is to:

• empower business users with better information in regards to business intelligence
• examine the obstacles and solutions self-service BI provides
• propose some best practices for deployment and use