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By: Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:39:58 +0000

Hi Christian, Thank you for taking the time to comment. There is a lot of truth in what you say. I also think that some BI practitioners (and more BI vendors) can oversell the inherent transformational capabilities of their tools (rather that the necessary accompanying change management work), leading to disappointment; something I touched on in Limitations of Business Intelligence. Peter

By: Christian Willig

Christian Willig — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:44:09 +0000

Hi Peter,

I agree with your view of why BI projects fails. Nevertheless I have my own point of view about that too. I think companies fail to leverage good BI Projects because they tried to implement a certain level of BI that is not supported by their actual level of BI processes. This could be avoided by knowing before hand your maturity level of BI and then drawing the respective roadmap to get to the level of BI the company wants. This roadmap would contains a set of projects that implemented in batch (or in parallel) would take the BI culture to another level.

Well, I hope I was clear enough on my point.

Feel free to comments.

Kind Regards,

Christian

By: Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:03:42 +0000

Hi Nancharaiah,

I wasn’t 100% sure what question you were asking.

Peter

By: G NANCHARAIAH

G NANCHARAIAH — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:43:58 +0000

hello

this is nancharaiah from india

iam asking one question how to important of microsoft intelligence

By: Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:39:22 +0000

Steve,

I am one short of maxing out on my LinkedIn.com groups and need to have a bit of a clear out before signing up to any new ones.

Peter

By: Steve Hitchman

Steve Hitchman — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:30:49 +0000

Hi Peter,

Are you going to join the ‘Agile Data warehousing and Business Intelligence’ group on linkedin ?

There is lots of healthy discussion on the Agile approach and we would love you to contribute.

Also, maybe we can catch up at the November conference as we are both speaking.

Best regards
Steve Hitchman
MIP and WhereScape

By: Steve Hitchman

Steve Hitchman — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:40:28 +0000

Sorry Peter I missed typr your name wronbg there mate.

I think it took me a year to respond because I don’t get notified of additions to the blog. I have now ticked the right box.

Why don’t you join my Linkedin group ‘Agile Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence’ you will certainly get unbiased comment there as well.

Hope you do.

Regards
Steve Hitchman
CEO MIP Australia &
Ops Director WhereScape Europe

By: Steve Hitchman

Steve Hitchman — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:37:03 +0000

WOW I see I can’t respond to your slightly barbed response any reason for that Pater ?

By: Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:21:30 +0000

Wow! only a year later a response – and they say that the Internet moves at the speed of light.

No problem with you mentioning your products – I am very interested in products.

However it would be very helpful if you also mentioned your affiliation at the same time lest readers assume that your comments are 100% neutral.

Peter