Follow The BI Leader

Nancy Williams, Vice President of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, DecisionPath Consulting, says: "The leaders in the BI arena are companies that have had the vision and will to exploit the possibilities of information-based competition." The inception of BI promised convincing returns that gained the attention of many enterprise executives. However, it seems as though Corporate America is struggling to see these promises in their BI efforts. What exactly is the business value of BI? Do you believe the promises were out of reach and over-predicted or are organizations just taking the wrong approach? What should organizations actually expect to see from their BI investments?