The truth about BI
1. Almost no BI data is secure.
It has constantly surprised me the extent to which BI data has never been secured in any sophisticated way. The most complicated security issues I have seen in BI have to do with convenience rather than data classifications and regimes of information hiding. In short, single signon, is the killer security app for BI, and almost nobody has it. Once. Once in my career have I seen the actual names of BI servers, their financial models, and the user IDs for those models abstracted.
2. BI UI is Boring
People in BI are still saying 'drill down' and 'slice and dice'. Why? Because nobody in the mainstream has come up with a better way to represent BI data visualization than rows and columns. The paradigm is absolutely privative. I have yet to see a navigation page in a BI system that looks halfway as flashy as a garden variety root menu for a DVD. Rich data and BI mashups are a non-entity, at least where I've been. That has got to change.
3. BI Implementation is different.
Implementation of business intelligence systems is a combination of business process re-engineering, quality improvement processes, enterprise application development and collaborative processing. No matter how many schools of thought you throw at it, there is no methodology that quite captures all that a good BI system.
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