Reprinted with permission from Information Management
Business intelligence (BI) has gotten a bad rap over the years, but it doesn’t have to be that way. The common perception that BI is simply the delivery of static reports or dashboards for monitoring performance is, frankly, outdated. As the advances in technology, analytics, big data, and database technologies bring down the barriers to working with data, the result can be true democratization of data -- and that’s fun. But, in order to do that, BI needs to be rediscovered and traditional notions need to be