From research carried out amongst hundreds of organizations, it has become clear that role based reporting and dashboarding can be a highly effective means of achieving business intelligence success. By personalizing reports, analysis and dashboards, based on the role(s) the person has in an organization, we can ensure that initially they see only the information that they are interested in. Read why role based reporting and dashboarding should be considered when it comes to achieving success with implementing business intelligence.

Since Howard Dresner coined the expression “Business Intelligence” in 1989 almost every consultant, vendor and indeed customer has developed their own interpretation of what he meant. The vendors in particular need to add new sources of revenue each year so they have created new products like CPM (corporate performance management) which are an “essential” part of Information Management. Some people (analysts) think these technologies will converge to form one product, Enterprise Performance Management. They both use data to provide information, often use the same metadata, so why shouldn't they merge into one package? Read why this may be a problem.