| Companies of any size and dedication need to know | | | | The main goal of any BI implementation is dramatically |
| every aspect of their performance at any time. | | | | improve the quality of organizations' decision-making |
| Information obtained from diverse sources must be the | | | | processes. |
| truth for all companies. | | | | The core of systems that serves the driving activities |
| When any organization grows in sales, in revenues, in | | | | for every organization is naturally transactional: the |
| production or in investments, the necessity of accurate, | | | | main objective for this kind of systems is to record |
| opportune and bullet-proof information grows too. This | | | | every important event like sales, inventory or |
| situation become vital for all organization | | | | production. But its transactional nature lacks of analysis |
| decision-makers and virtually any employee is a | | | | capabilities, because the stored data has no meaning |
| decision-maker or a decision-influencer. | | | | without I.T. Unit intervention and this data is organized |
| Every company needs to address some particular | | | | for transactional systems' performance satisfaction, |
| situations like: | | | | not for final user questions' answers. |
| - The truth about shown information. All shared or | | | | Then, Business Intelligence implementation act like a |
| distributed information must be unique, no matter who | | | | sort of crunching translator, putting operational data in |
| produce this. | | | | front of final users with a definite meaning, easily |
| - Focus on organization goals. All efforts and | | | | recognizable across all organization or business unit. |
| resources must be directed in order to achieve the | | | | This aspect is critical: a business intelligence |
| proposed goals on time and on budget. | | | | implementation must answer the most important |
| - All information must be easily located. It is important | | | | questions from business users in the form of key |
| locate and compare historic with current values and | | | | performance indicators. |
| obtain all values in the same and easy way. | | | | |