This document discusses how business intelligence (BI) consulting can help organizations deliver business value from their BI initiatives. It notes that the quality and timeliness of an organization's BI can impact profitability and survival. While the BI market is growing, many initiatives fail to move beyond initial asset creation to capturing business value. Effective BI requires alignment with business strategy and processes. BI consulting can help organizations assess readiness, define initiatives, build BI culture, and manage information assets across the entire BI lifecycle to continuously improve and quantify ROI.

1. We Bring Business Value to BI
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2. The Situation
“In today’s highly competitive and increasingly uncertain
world, the quality and timelines of an organization’s
“business intelligence” (BI) can mean not only the
difference between profit and loss but even the difference
between survival and bankruptcy.”
Edward Yourdon – Int. Soft. Consultant - NYC 2002
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3. Facts about BI
BI Market Structure Y10
Middle East BI in 2010
market up 18.3%
16%
20% BI Platforms
Revenues $ 204M
Top 5 vendors - 68% MSS
64% CPM Suites
“Classic BI” still leads the way
Analytic Apps
Source: Gartner – Market Share Analysis:: BI, Analytics & Performance
Management, Worldwide 2010
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4. Facts about BI
Operational Excellence Management Excellence
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5. BI Value Chain
Assess readiness
Define a BI Initiative
Enabling Process
Develop a BI Culture
Create BI opportunities
Manage Information Assets
Align to strategy
Continue improving
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6. Why BI Consulting ?
Facts: 64% revenue from BI Platforms
Does your BI vendor help you implement the phase 4 of BI Lifecycle?
Are you able to quantify ROI beyond process improvement?
Data quality a foundation for “Trustworthy information”
How many information assets are you able to generate?
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7. Why BI Consulting ?
The Process of Deploying BI to Improve Business Results
Project Timeline
Many BI initiatives stop But they need to go
here! here!!
BI Asset Creation Phase BI Value Capture Phase
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8. Delivering BI
Business Value
B u s i n e ss P re co n d i ti ons
Strategic Alignment Process Engineering Change Management
Business Value of Business Intelligence
BI Technical Development BI Project Management
Te c h n ical P re co n d i tion s
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9. Yes but…
Why us?
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10. What we offer
Assessment Definition
Lifecycle Build
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11. BI Consulting
Assessment
Definition
Technology Business opportunity
BI Culture Requirement Analysis
Data environment
Change Management
Business Model
Communication
Sponsorship Strategic Alignment
Lifecycle
Build
BI Strata Project Management
BICC KPI Visualization
BI Roadmap CPM & Business Analytics
BI Strategy document
Predictive Analytics & Modeling
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12. Exit to a smarter BI
journey
Smart Decisions Consulting is a startup company aiming to
empower organizations to add Business value in their
Business Intelligence initiative.
Member since 2007
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13. What ‘s next?
Define your Business Intelligence initiative
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14. Thank You !