Business intelligence has to adapt to the speed of business with timely access to data to make better decisions and discover new opportunities. And yet, too often, BI projects take many months or even years to deliver value. A traditional BI project will use a waterfall approach to development as a way of defining precise requirements, finding data sources, developing data models and producing reports and dashboards, all with the hope of producing relevant data for business users. Today’s business intelligence, meanwhile, demands speed and flexibility, with business users really only knowing what they want once they see it. Agile development methodology is better suited to BI projects. In this espresso webinar, learn:
- Why traditional waterfall development processes don’t suit BI projects
- Characteristics of agile BI development
- Pitfalls to avoid in BI application development
- Challenges in the business-IT partnership and how to overcome them for greater collaboration
Cindi Howson, Founder, BI Scorecard
Joe Nicholsen, VP Product Marketing, Pentaho
