Benchmarks for BI and Data Warehousing Success
People and companies always want to know
how they are doing. That's why they keep
score, whether it is for golf or for business performance. The scores show how people and
companies are doing over time, against goals
or in comparison to others. Scores provide feedback and
incentive to improve performance.
In business, benchmarks are especially useful. They are
helpful in answering the
question: How are we
doing, especially in
comparison to other companies? This is
true in the
business intelligence (BI) and
data warehousing world.
People want to
know how successful their BI and
data warehousing
initiatives are in
comparison to other
companies.
We conducted a study (promoted by DM Review) that created metrics used for assess
ing the success of a data warehouse architecture and a
company's use of Bl. We collected survey data from 454
companies that can be used for benchmarking purposes.
In this article, we discuss how the success measures
were selected, what the success metrics are. the survey
data that was selected, the benchmark data for the metrics
and the use of the metrics.
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