Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

One of the things that I often come across is the “up-dateable fact”, that is a fact that starts life “incomplete” and changes overtime. Examples include things such as support calls that start life as “open” then progress through “responded”, “resolved” and finally “closed”; statuses in the sales cycle such as ordered, paid, shipped; stock [...]

In this, my final post on the BICC subject (well, for now at least…), I take a look at the softer side of BI management…
The Balancing Act
Put simply, if BI is delivered well it should generate two things…..firstly, answers [no pun intended] to the questions that the business know need to be answered….but then quickly [...]

In my last post, I opened up some of my thoughts about how much BICC activity is happening in the real world.  Continuing on from there, I’m now going to turn my attention to some of the important things that I think need to be addressed in the management of BI (whether under a BICC umbrella or [...]

If your organisation has been using Business Intelligence in a strategic way for some time, then you will have already seen your BI solution evolve, grow and change from its original incarnation.  You will probably also have an appreciation of the importance of somehow taking ownership of this process of evolution.  Maybe you understood this [...]

In the last blog entry i had given a high level overview of the various components comprising the Cognos 8 BI Suite. One of the most common questions that we tend to get in conferences is how do we go about using Cognos to report out of the model designed in BI EE. BI EE [...]