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Business Intelligence Roadmap

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What is information management?

Information management is a discipline that governs accountability for the structure and design, storage, movement, security, quality, delivery and usage of information required for management and business intelligence purposes.

What is data governance?

Data management is a sub-set of information management that governs organization and control of the structure and design, storage, movement, security and quality of information.

What is information delivery?

Information delivery is a subset of information management that governs processes and accountability for the analysis, design, development and delivery of information management solutions.

What is information usage?

Information usage is a subset of information management that governs the use of information required for management and business intelligence purposes.

What is a business intelligence roadmap?

An business intelligence  roadmap provides the policy direction, standards and best practices required to ensure that business intelligence reporting and analysis meets organizational requirements. It is comprised of:
  • Data management (Governance) standards and best practices;
  • Project management Roadmap; and 
  • Metrics management
Business Intelligence Roadmap

What is a data management roadmap?

A data management, or data governance, Roadmap is a set of IT standards and IT best practices that governs organization and control of the structure and design, storage, movement, security and quality of information. The Roadmap should include standards and best practices for:
  • Data movement including standards and best practices for extract, transform and load (ETL), reference and master data and data mapping;
  • Metadata management policy which should specify internal requirements for gathering, maintaining and providing metadata; and
What is a project management framework?

A business intelligence project management methodology governs processes and accountability for the analysis, design, development and delivery of information solutions.

It should include a project management framework  which addresses project management phases, and human resources planning policies that specifies roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for IT professionals and IT outsource resources including outsource software development methodologies.

Metric Management 

A business intelligence Roadmap governs usage of information required for management and business intelligence purposes and this includes:
  • management information systems; and
  • metric management which should specify how corporate metrics will be defined for business intelligence purposes and who is responsible for maintaining metric classification and key performance indicators
Business intelligence roadmap checklist

Business intelligence policies, standards and best practices should address the following topics:

Adaptive business intelligence
Advanced business intelligence solutions
Basics to gathering business intelligence
Best business intelligence practice
Building business intelligence
Business analytics
Business competitive intelligence
Business dashboard intelligence
Business data intelligence
Business data intelligence mining
Business enterprise intelligence
Business intelligence
Business intelligence analysis
Business intelligence and analytics
Business intelligence and crm
Business intelligence and data
Business intelligence and data warehousing
Business intelligence and decision support
Business intelligence and reporting
Business intelligence and reporting tools
Business intelligence applications
Business intelligence best practices
Business intelligence budgeting
Business intelligence center of excellence
Business intelligence concepts
Business intelligence cycle
Business intelligence dashboard
Business intelligence data
Business intelligence data mining
Business intelligence data warehouse
Business intelligence data warehousing
Business intelligence data warehousing solutions
Business intelligence definition
Business intelligence development
Business intelligence implementation
Business intelligence management
Business intelligence management process
Business intelligence map road
Business intelligence mapping
Business intelligence model
Business intelligence modelling
Business intelligence needs
Business intelligence outsourcing
Business intelligence planning
Business intelligence practice
Business intelligence principles
Business intelligence process
Business intelligence program
Business intelligence projects
Business intelligence reporting
Business intelligence reporting tools
Business intelligence reports
Business intelligence resources
Business intelligence roi
Business intelligence software
Business intelligence solutions
Business intelligence systems
Business intelligence tool requirements
Business intelligence vendors
Business performance intelligence
Business performance management
Center for business intelligence
Change management practices
Competitive analysis
Competitive business intelligence
Comprehensive business intelligence solutions
Corporate business intelligence
Corporate metrics
Critical business intelligence
Data mining
Data mining and business intelligence
Data mining business intelligence
Data mining data warehouse
Data mining software
Data warehouse reporting
Data warehousing and business intelligence
Data warehousing and data mining
Data warehousing business intelligence
Data warehousing solution
Decision support
Delivering business intelligence
E business intelligence
Enterprise business intelligence
Enterprise business intelligence reporting
Enterprise business intelligence software
Enterprise business intelligence strategy
Impact of business intelligence
Implementing business intelligence
Information business intelligence
Information data warehouse
Key performance indicators (KPI)
Management business intelligence
Metadata management
Performance indicators
Project charter business intelligence
Query and reporting
Query tools
Requirements for business intelligence
Role of business intelligence
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Summary...

Information management is a discipline  that governs accountability for the structure and design, storage, movement, security, quality, delivery and usage of information required for management and business intelligence purposes.

A business intelligence roadmap is comprised of information management policies, standards and best practices, a data management Roadmap, a project management Roadmap, an information usage Roadmap, and a change management methodology.


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