The success of your governance program may be jeopardized by many factors including complexity of the initiative, lack of executive support and/or internal resources, organizational culture and data integrity issues. Those issues can be addressed with careful planning and recruitment efforts, but for your efforts to have the most impact they must be considered within the context of your organizational environment. This e-book provides instruction on how to ramp up buy-in, and educate, communicate and ultimately establish responsibility and accountability for your governance program.

One of the hottest new trends in business intelligence is the advent of mobile solutions. But mobile is different than other hot new BI trends of recent years: unlike real time data, open source platforms, or new data warehouse architectures, mobile BI is all about the end user, not the data or the technology. As such it has the potential to dramatically change the experience of every existing BI consumer as well as create a vast new set of BI consumers who are empowered and informed.

Optimizing a business with analytics requires far more than just technology. It calls for a commitment to change, a willingness to adjust business processes that may be near and dear to key stakeholders. It means getting down to the brass tacks of what makes an organization work – process. It also requires the keystone that opens new doors: analytics.

Key Performance Indicators, also known as KPIs, have become part of the canon of management practice over the last few decades. The idea is that you define a set of key metrics: for example, new customers, customer churn and bad debts; and run your business by them. When KPIs first came out they were a great innovation. They helped companies identify the driving forces of their businesses and standardize on a set of metrics to define success. Most companies went through a useful process of defining KPI’s, creating scorecards, and implementing a regular scorecard review process. The problem is, KPI’s don’t work anymore.

Analysts with Forrester Research are predicting the cloud computing market to reach $241 billion by 2020. This is a trend that is rapidly gaining adoption by a wide range of businesses. There is a lot of buzz around cloud computing – what it is, how it works and who should use it. These are serious questions and the answers have long-term ramifications. This eBook takes a look at explaining the idea of cloud and some of the organizations that are moving their analysis off premises. This eBook presents two points of view from well respected industry experts. Robin Bloor presents the challenges and benefits of cloud computing adoption in Eric Kavanagh’s interview with him. Jim Ericson shares his observations.