I would like to discuss now the role of the IT folks in the data governance process.  In my previous blogs, I have emphasized how important it is that the process be business led.  However the IT folks have a very important role in data govern

I had a fun conversation on Sunday night with a business owner who was lamenting over people spending their day on Facebook and other social media venues.  He felt he had a big enough issue that he spent some money on a firewall to stop people from

 I wrote last week about business intelligence and it's application within the pharmaceutical vertical based on an article I'd read.  In my post I talked about...pharmaceutical companies to get value from all that data, th

As those who know me know, I am a great believer in power words.  But even a power word out of context is pretty useless and sometimes can be antagonizing.  I was reminded of the importance of this sort of context yesterday when dealing with a

There have been a lot of questions to me around what kind of security can be set in MicroStrategy.  One of the most requested is allowing access to certain users to specific reports.  The answer is Yes we can limit access to reports based on u

Michael and I sat down after a great morning of review on lessons learned and wanted to quickly chat about Business Intelligence Governance. In today's CoffeeCAST we talk about the main four areas of focus without going too deep on...

KPI's are very important components of our strategy to monitor and report our organizational effectiveness.  Wikepedia has a great definition that links to the similar ideas of BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) and Scorecards.In context these o

As part of Project X Ltd's RapidBI platform and approach, we heavily rely on repeatable processes and infrastructure.In doing a post project review, one of the areas that I saw that is difficult to ensure through the collaboration model is understandi

This is an interesting fairy tale about one aspect of data goverence.   Have a look at http://youtube.com/watch?v=TbzQvswrOTw I think that data quality is a dragon we need to tame and bring into the service of our organizations. &

Michael and I finally had a moment to sit down and collect our thoughts after our great week in Las Vegas. Our highlights are: MicroStrategy World General Mobile BI - extending Business Intelligence Visualization - ability to garner insight Lessons...