Comments on: Agile BI for a chilled economy http://datadoodle.com/2008/09/03/agile-bi-for-a-chilled-economy/ Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:16:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jorgen Heizenberg http://datadoodle.com/2008/09/03/agile-bi-for-a-chilled-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Jorgen Heizenberg Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:30:02 +0000 http://datadoodle.com/?p=156#comment-153 As an effect of the economic downturn the IT budget of one of our clients has been frozen. At the same time you see a lot of business initiatives to come up with smart solutions to cope with this change in consumer spending. In order to tackle this we have come up with several alternative business services: 1. Quick Service: 1 hour work, 1 day throughput time, simple basic data dump 2. Quick Report: 8 hour work, 1 week thoughput time, simple basic not supported report 3. Quick Analytics: 1 week work, 2-4 week troughput time, answering business questions using advanced statistical analysis. Non of these products are part of our supported BI service portfolio - but in enables us to meet customer demands. Another possibility would be to give enduser access to the datawarehouse with simple end user tooling but this causes to many obvious problems to make it work. As an effect of the economic downturn the IT budget of one of our clients has been frozen. At the same time you see a lot of business initiatives to come up with smart solutions to cope with this change in consumer spending. In order to tackle this we have come up with several alternative business services:
1. Quick Service: 1 hour work, 1 day throughput time, simple basic data dump
2. Quick Report: 8 hour work, 1 week thoughput time, simple basic not supported report
3. Quick Analytics: 1 week work, 2-4 week troughput time, answering business questions using advanced statistical analysis.
Non of these products are part of our supported BI service portfolio - but in enables us to meet customer demands.

Another possibility would be to give enduser access to the datawarehouse with simple end user tooling but this causes to many obvious problems to make it work.

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