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July 5, 2008
Integrating stand-alone BI platforms- Gradual Approach
By the time organizations come out with the idea of an enterprise Business Intelligence Program, there are many stand-alone BI environments which have mushroomed by that time. Business and IT stakeholders are wary to rock the boat on stabilized and business critical data-marts. Business leaders are short of stamina to focus on enterprise BI program, as it is more convenient to grow the functional level existing data-marts.
The question is on how to then proceed for integrating these environments. This is with the assumption that you don't want to reinvent the wheel and want to leverage on what is already done.
Instead of a big-bang, one can go for a gradual approach whereby a decent proportion of the plumbing work can be done in the back-ground before you start engaging broad-set of stakeholders.
The steps that I will recommend is:
- Integrate the ETL
- Integrate the front-end tools
- Integrate the Data Marts
Please refer to the gradual BI integration approach, the steps and cautions in Integrating your stand-alone BI environments- Gradual Approach in my portal bipminstitute.com .
Posted by Rajan Gupta at July 5, 2008 11:45 AM
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