Roled based reporting and dashboarding

From research carried out at hundreds of organizations, it is 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 interests them.

Causing information-overload

Omitting information that is out-of-scope, might seem to be risky, because you are not always certain what they want to know, but BI systems that aren't role based present a lot of information that is not relevant to a particular user, causing information-overload. Users still have to search for information, instead of having it simply presented to them.

The way they do differs considerably

Role based reporting and dashboarding are functionalities that are provided by nearly every BI tool, but the way they do it differs considerably. Some still present a full report, requiring the user to drill-down, filter, sort or click excessively in order to find the required information. Some tools, the better ones, make it possible to define roles within the BI system, and then link directly to information and data elements extracting only the information that is relevant to the role. Read more in the analyst BI Tool Survey 2010 Report which is now available for purchase.