Everyone’s talking about collaboration — but what culture and tools does it take to succeed? Six principles emerged from a discussion among experts at the Pacific Northwest BI Summit in July.
Even among this moderate crowd, an old tension showed itself. BI has always had what I’ve thought of as “data police,” those who stress data quality, security, and process at the expense of natural workflows. On the other end, “data libertarians” have used self-service tools to wrest control of their data analysis and data itself — an approach that has made more sense to me. If BI is about business, why leave it up to a cabal of technicians?… Read the rest “Everybody talks about collaboration”