Problem Statement:
"Plethora of Choices Lead to Uncertainty"
In the current information era, companies invest in BI solutions to keep themselves informed of the critical information required to make effective decisions. With a need to get right information at the right time, companies develop solutions based on different tools and technologies to support various business processes. While doing so, large companies investing a lot on information systems, fail to create a synergy between the applications, thus lacking BI on BI.
Solution: CBIP - Common Business Intelligence Platform
Business User's View Point:
>> Access all my BI applications through one portal or one screen
>> Spend more time analyzing information rather than collating from various sources
>> Get intelligence based on associations and categorizations
How to enable CBIP:
The key aspect of CBIP is creation and management of metadata of all the BI applications. The following diagram provides a pictorial representation of the solution.
Benefits of CBIP:
>> Role based access to multiple sub domain BI applications through one portal
>> Intelligence based on associations and categorizations
>> Personalization of contents with added benefits like status reports, news, articles and announcements
>> Determine applications dependency on databases
>> Platform for discussions and tweets
>> Measure integrated usage tracking
>> Ease of information access enabling sophistication
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