Posted by Ray Malendewicz on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 @ 10:01 AM
From my last blog these are the reasons why a Business Intelligence project fails.
- There is no executive support.
- It is not easy to use.
There is poor IT support.
Let’s now look at why these Business Intelligence projects succeed. The obvious conclusion is that if you get Executive support, make it easy to use and give excellent IT support any Business Intelligence project will succeed.
In order to make sure that your Business Intelligence project is successful adhere to the following simple rules.
1st Rule to a Successful Business Intelligence Project : Make sure that you have complete and unconditional Executive support. You will get this when you can demonstrate that there is a viable and timely Return on Investment and that, when delivered, it will provide an easy to use solution.
2nd Rule to a Successful Business Intelligence Project : Have a strong project team. This team must make sure that they can provide a solution in a timely manner that is consistent and relevant to the users. The team must be able to respond to user specification without being continually diverted by changes.
3rd Rule to a Successful Business Intelligence Project : Make sure that the users can respond and react to the information produced. Users need to be able to understand the results and be able to take actions.
4th Rule to a Successful Business Intelligence Project : Choose the right tool and partner. This would appear to be the most obvious part of any Business Intelligence project but there are lots of tools available and while many of them look great some of them can be quite expensive. Don’t believe just what you read in articles and reviews by Gartner, Forrester and others. Do some real research and test the products for flexibility and ease of use if you can. Make sure that the Partner you choose understands not only the product but also what you are trying to achieve.
We at QlikPower have over many years experience in helping customers identify requirements and choose the right tool. We have worked with lots of Business Intelligence solutions but are currently most associated with QlikView. This is because we can demonstrate our solution against you own data and thus show its capability to meet your requirements.
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Posted by Ray Malendewicz on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 @ 12:08 PM
I read many articles and blogs related to Business Intelligence. Very often they are quite technical but one issue comes up regularly. That is – ‘Why do Business Intelligence projects fail?’
There are many articles that have reviewed this aspect of Business Intelligence and dozens of lists that go into some details of why they fail. When I reviewed as many as I could read it was clear that though they provide lots of lists they all came down to a few key elements.
From these lists the top three are:-
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There is no Executive support. Many consider this to be the most important aspect of any Business Intelligence project. If there is not active board level support for all stages of the project it will not be successful. A member of the senior management team must take responsibility for the project and manage the overall project to its conclusion.
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It is not easy to use. Users are not properly trained and do not understand what is being presented to them. Often this means that they think the data is wrong and they do not trust the information being given to them.
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There is poor IT support. Users need to have a direct link to IT support to ensure that issues are quickly resolved. This means that IT must have knowledge of the solution provide as well as the capability of the product itself.
I am not saying that if you address the above issues you will have a successful project but I would hope that you will have more chance of your Business Intelligence project working.
We at QlikPower worked very closely with our customers to ensure that Business Intelligence projects are successful. To find out more please go to our web site.
So much for the glass being half empty, the next blog will review why Business Intelligence projects succeed – the glass will be half full.