Monday, April 25, 2011

Data Warehouse versus Business Intelligence - Executing a business service with precision - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Daniel Rubiolo blog about his view of Business Intelligence, with some great metrics on the components and percentage of resources dedicated to a BI solution.

The traditional definition of “data warehouse, or DW” from late ‘70s/early ‘80s involved the end-to-end solution for business users… from extracting data and aggregating it into special data models, the queries, all thru the applications/reports the users interacted with to consume that data.

According to Daniel, a BI project is 70% getting the data and 30% showing it off.  I would suggest it fits with the 80/20 rule in most cases.  80% of the time and effort in a BI project would be sourcing the data and gathering requirements, designing, developing, testing, and deploying a solution.  20% of the time would be adjusting and presenting reports.

This is probably why PowerPivot is such a favourite for power users, since they don’t necessarily require outside IT resources to build their models.  It becomes a 50/50 game with a faster ROI.  However, scalability and maintainability of a solution that resides on a user’s desktop remains in question.  The “hit by a bus” rule makes desktop-based custom models a potentially risky solution for a business

Data Warehouse versus Business Intelligence - Executing a business service with precision - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

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