Some ideas about a BI Manager profile. The decalogue will be in a continuous change.

1. b USINESS i NTELLIGENCE m ANAGER d ECALOGUE

2. b E a N o RACLE A deep knowledge of all the business processes is more important than be a good IT technician. 1

3. b E a N e VANGELIST Spread the analysis through all the company areas. Your work valuation is directly proportional to the analytical capabilities of business guys. 2

4. b E n EAR t HE e STRATEGY Avoid the intermediates in the business strategy flow 3

5. b E c OMMUNICATIVE The knowledge is not the power. The power is placed in an effectively knowledge communication 4

6. b E e NTHUSIAST Numbers are cold, an enthusiast oratory will give you a focus 5

7. t RY t O d EFINE e ACH i NFORMATION a REA Distribute the business needs in each business intelligence box: Reporting, Analysis, Data Mining and Dashboards 6

8. t RY t O m AKE s IMPLE a ND r OBUST s YSTEMS Put a big efford in define granularity, re-runnable ETL processes, historification rutines and a good DWH schema. Don’t forget hardware … multiprocessing and a DBA 7