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Business Intelligence Resources
Need
to manage business intelligence resources and want practical standards
and best practices for information management governance and
accountability?
What are business intelligence (BI) resources?
Enterprise business intelligence (EBI) requires highly skilled
specialists with extensive experience in data warehouse design and
development and with business intelligence analytics and reporting.
These resources include:
- Business team resources i.e. the team responsible for understanding the data, and for using the solution;
- Project team resources, i.e. all the specialized
skills required to analyze, design, build, test and implement a
business intelligence solution;
- Production support staff, i.e. the IT operations
team members responsible for operating the BI solution, maintaining
software, responding to production and responding to production issues.
Business team members include:
- Business data guardian e.g. the person accountable
for
- Establishing the data classification
for information for which they
are responsible;
- Identifying the appropriate level of
protection
for that information; and
- For ensuring that the information is
handled
accordingly.
- Data
steward e.g. the person accountable
for managing data within a business area and is responsible for data
requirements, standards, access rules, and business training;
- End user team e.g. users who are involved with specifying BI requirements,
defining requirements acceptance criteria, user acceptance testing, and
with using the BI solution to achieve business objectives.
Project team business intelligence resources include:
- Project manager e.g. the person with overall
responsibility for project planning, obtaining appropriate resources
and for status reporting to the sponsor and other external
stakeholders;
- Business intelligence architect e.g. the person with overall
responsibility for architecture and design,
development, testing and the technical quality pf all project deliverables;
- Data
modeler e.g. the person responsible
for
analyzing data requirement and
documenting these requirements in the form of data models, creating
data mart designs, and helping with business intelligence reporting
tool data model considerations;
- Data
analyst
e.g. the person responsible for analyzing source
data quality and for
developing source to target mapping documents (including data business
transformation rules). Depending upon the nature of the project, data
analysts may be responsible for data mapping from source systems to
data warehouse structures and/or from data warehouse structures to data
mart structures;
- Business
intelligence analyst
e.g. the person responsible for analyzing analytical,
reporting, and decision-making requirements and for documenting these
in
the requirements document. The business intelligence analyst frequently
works quite closely with the data modeler and with the BI designer;
- Database
administrator (DBA) e.g. the person responsible for creating all
development/test database environments and for building the
development/test databases. A data base administrator may also be extensively involved in test data creation;
- Data
movement designer e.g. the person responsible for the overall design of the
data movement (extract, transform and load) solution. This includes
producing all design deliverables and for leading integration testing;
- Data movement developer e.g. the person responsible for developing, and unit
testing, extract, transform and load software;
- BI reporting designer/developer e.g. the person responsible for developing, and unit
testing, all BI reporting components. The BI designer frequently works closely with the BI Analyst, Data Modeler and end user
- Quality
assurance (QA) test lead e.g. the person responsible for
quality assurance testing the entire solution to ensure that it is
ready for user acceptance testing;
- Quality
assurance
tester e.g. the person responsible for:
- Creating QA test cases/test steps;
- Documenting all test results;
and
- Identifying QA test defects.
Production support team business intelligence resources include:
- Release manager e.g. the person responsible for
planning the release including release testing, directing the release
test and for certifying that the release is production ready;
- ETL and BI developers and operational experts who are responsible for on-going operations and software maintenance; and
- Production
database administrators, network administrators, etc who are
responsible providing ongoing operational support as needed.
Summary...
Enterprise
business intelligence (EBI) requires highly skilled business
intelligence resources with extensive experience in data
warehouse design and
development and with business intelligence analytics and reporting.
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