Many enterprises that are slow to embrace business intelligence despite the industry’s booming growth are hesitant for the very reason that they perceive its solutions to be a drain on an already-full IT budget. While a huge company may need five approvals from a CEO, official e-mails and team meetings to get any change through, you can already start leveraging insights from big data in small business. Each of us will inevitably have a profile of strengths and weaknesses across all the varied abilities that make for business intelligence. Creation of a powerful DW depends on the correctness of data modeling, which is the responsibility of the database architect of the project, but BA needs to play a pivotal role providing him with correct data sources, data requirements and most importantly business dimensions.
Taking a user-centered approach throughout the design and development stage may further increase the chance of rapid …