2. Identify the organization business needs and pain areas to be addressed as part of the engagement and needs to be tested all the requirements before finalizing and approving.

3. Clubbing multiple reports into a single report and try to see that all the reports are accommodated into the cap of reports development and without checking the feasibility of development in the selected reporting tool. This is the major issue.

4. Improper Set Expectations from the beginning.

5. Aggressive time lines.

6. Dearth of alignment of all the stake holders (from project sponsor to the Business users/executive users etc.,) on what the BI System should consists of for their business needs.

7. Dearth of User’s availability as and when required during the implementation of the project.

8. Poor data profiling and dearth of quality of data.

9. Business data not available in the transactional systems as per the BI business needs and accepting all the requirements blindly without understanding the complete structure of the sources systems.

10. Selection of the DW & BI tools and frameworks without evaluation based on the customer business needs.

11. Dearth of right skilled resources.

12. Dearth of project sponsor and stakeholders attention from the day1 until end of the project.

13. Defining the acceptance criteria.

14. Unavailability of production data for testing.

15. Internal politics.

16. There are some scenarios that implementing the BI system because competitor has implemented.