Monday, September 28, 2009

The Evolution and Future of Business Intelligence

A good article explaining the evolution of Business Intelligence taking an example of a hypothetical Telecom Company and how it emerges during the different stages of evolution.

BI Gen I : Reporting using the Enterprise Data Warehouse using slicing and dicing. Helps in Reporting at Speed-of-Thought.
BI Gen II : Giving real time Reporting capability to the Data Warehouse using Dashboards and Scorecards. Ability to analyze events as it happens.
BI Gen III : Reporting should not only be Real-Time but also be Actionable. Automated decision making.
BI Gen IV : Simulating Business Strategies based on past available information. Run hypothetical scenarios on real data and analyze results as if it were real.
BI Gen V : Optimize business using Artificial Intelligence as well as Traditional Statistics. Make it Autopilot.

Read the complete article here...
The Evolution and Future of Business Intelligence by Rob Walker

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