Mike Biere

A Complete Blueprint for Maximizing the Value of Business Intelligence in the Enterprise The typical enterprise recognizes the immense potential of business intelligence (BI) and its impact upon many facets within the organization—but it’s not easy to transform BI’s potential into real business value. In The New Era of Enterprise Business Intelligence, top BI expert Mike Biere presents a complete blueprint for creating winning BI strategies and infrastructure, and systematically maximizing the value of information throughout the enterprise. This product-independent guide brings together start-to-finish guidance and practical checklists for every senior IT executive, planner, strategist, implementer, and the actual business users themselves. Drawing on thousands of hours working with enterprise customers, Biere helps decision-makers choose from today’s unprecedented spectrum of options, including the latest BI platform suites and appliances. He offers practical, “in-the-trenches” insights on a wide spectrum of planning and implementation issues, from segmenting and supporting users to working with unstructured data. Coverage includes Understanding the scope of today’s BI solutions and how they fit into existing infrastructure Assessing new options such as SaaS and cloud-based technologies Avoiding technology biases and other “project killers” Developing effective RFIs/RFPs and proofs of concept Setting up competency centers and planning for skills development Crafting a better experience for all your business users Supporting the requirements of senior executives, including performance management Cost-justifying BI solutions and measuring success Working with enterprise content management, text analytics, and search Planning and constructing portals, mashups, and other user interfaces Previewing the future of BI

Using Analytics to Achieve a Global Competitive Advantage

The New Era of Enterprise Business Intelligence

IBM Redbooks

Peter Richardson

Kristi Ramey

Shawn Sullivan

Jeremy Weatherall

There is enormous pressure today for businesses across all industries to cut costs, enhance business performance, and deliver greater value with fewer resources. To take business analytics to the next level and drive tangible improvements to the bottom line, it is important to manage not only the volume of data, but the speed with which actionable findings can be drawn from a wide variety of disparate sources. The findings must be easily communicated to those responsible for making both strategic and tactical decisions. At the same time, strained IT budgets require that the solution be self-service for everyone from DBAs to business users, and easily deployed to thin, browser-based clients. Business analytics hosted in the Query Management FacilityTM (QMFTM) on DB2® and System z® allow you to tackle these challenges in a practical way, using new features and functions that are easily deployed across the enterprise and easily consumed by business users who do not have prior IT experience. This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides step-by-step instructions on using these new features: Access to data that resides in any JDBC-compliant data source OLAP access through XMLA 150+ new analytical functions Graphical query interfaces and graphical reports Graphical, interactive dashboards Ability to integrate QMF functions with third-party applications Support for the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator A new QMF Classic perspective in QMF for Workstation Ability to start QMF for TSO as a DB2 for z/OS stored procedure New metadata capabilities, including ER diagrams and capability to federate data into a single virtual source

Complete Analytics with IBM DB2 Query Management Facility: Accelerating Well-Informed Decisions Across the Enterprise

A complete blueprint for creating winning business intelligence strategies and infrastructure, and maximizing the value of information * *Practical techniques for planning strategy, and exceptional real-world guidance on BI evaluation. *Fully reflects radical shifts in the BI marketplace, including new platform suites (e.g., Cognos, SAP/BOBJ) and appliances (e.g., Neteeza), which add complexity to decisionmaking and planning. *Contains realistic solutions to the BI pitfalls enterprises encounter most often. Enterprises recognize the immense potential of business intelligence, but it's not easy to transform BI's potential into real business value. In Enterprise Business Intelligence , top IBM BI expert Mike Biere presents realistic start-to finish guidance and practical checklists for every planner, strategist, and implementer. Drawing on thousands of hours working with enterprise customers, Biere addresses both strategy and infrastructure, helping decisionmakers choose amongst today's unprecedented spectrum of options -- including the latest BI suites and appliances. Coverage includes: * *Understanding the evolving scope of potential BI solutions. *Assessing new options such as SaaS and cloud-based technologies. *Creating successful Proofs of Concept. *Setting realistic expectations. *Avoiding 'project killing' pitfalls in enterprise BI implementation. *Setting up competency centers and planning for skills development. *Establishing the right staffing roles throughout the enterprise. *Selecting the right tools for development and other tasks. *Working with advanced analytics, text analytics, data mining, dashboards, scoreboards, and KPIs Effective BI has never been more crucial to the success of the enterprise. Its importance means that it now requires scrutiny at higher levels of the organization than ever before. This book will give senior decision-makers and their teams the insights they need to make the best decisions - and get best results

This text aims to help you to maximize the potential of Business Intelligence in your organization. It includes stories of companies that implemented BI - those that have succeeded and those that have failed.

Mike Biere

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