SPEED UP YOUR ANSWERS

The speed of today's business requires a new paradigm.  Years of slow BI delivery - caused by running every sort, filter and query through centralized IT - has created a huge opening for the new vendors.  That's one of the reasons why Tableau, Qlik and a new breed of data discovery and visualization business intelligence tools are marketing directly to the business and bypassing IT.  Their rapid ascent has leapfrogged the BI mega vendors and they now have their sights set next on extending self-service to data preparation (a.k.a. light-weight data integration).

Successful businesses are the ones enabling business data discovery with the right level of governance.  Let the business run wild and you might be worse off than when they were building data marts in Access and Excel, distributing reports via email attachments.  But force everyone through IT?  Well, that one's a non-starter.

BI CENTER OF EXCELLENCE 

Through Insight Consulting's Self-Service BI Services, we'll partner with you to find the sweet spot in self-service.  Through a Business Intelligence Center of Excellent (BiCOE), you can empower Business and IT with self-service BI while putting a little rigor around it.  We'll develop your BiCOE program spanning organization, best practices, coaching, training and governance.   Our consultants will build the logical data layer, balancing in-memory vs. back-end data integration.  This common data and metadata layer (think data dictionary) can unleash your business on creating impactful analytics and help cement a culture of data-driven decision making and insights in your company.  Lean on us to help get you going with the right level of governance between the Business and IT.