1. BCOR 2500 BI Chapter 10 Jim Marlatt Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado at Boulder
Source: Business Intelligence Chapter 10

2. A BI Solution
Brings people, technology and data together to deliver valuable information to business decision makers
Business decision makers play a critical role in making sure the BI solution meets their information and analysis needs

3. An Implementation Strategy
Think big and start small
Pay special attention to your 1st step
Assemble the puzzle pieces early
Use well-defined BI projects
Leverage success again and again

4. The Implementation Team
Executive sponsor
Project manager
Business team
Technical team
Data modelers
Internal vs. external resources

5. BI Technologies Overall Evaluation Criteria
Front-end reporting and analysis tools
OLAP and relational databases
ETL tools
BI accelerators

6. Dimension Design
Levels
Hierarchies
Attributes
Changes

7. Measure Design
Calculations
Aggregation method
Refresh and history

8. Source Data Identifying data sources Evaluating data sources
Handling data issues