Sunday, December 11, 2011

Why another Blog...

There are millions of Links and places that you probably know on Business Intelligence and probably thousands based of Business Objects... some supported by SAP some are SAP affiliated describing everything you wanted to know about BO so why one more.... Here is what motivated all this...

 1.IT landscape is very rapidly changing and with the advent of cloud computing the tread is going to be disruptive as is the BI landscape.
 2.Organization are creating much more data than they can meaningfully handle with in the current client server scenario and they are constantly looking for new avenues to explore , analyze data to convert them into meaningful information they can use.
 3.Current BI systems are bit lazy in providing tangible and measurable results without sacrificing performance and without incurring huge cost.
4.The trend analysis and data mining looks very good on paper but does not hold much water while really diving deeper into them and moreover without a lot of projection from the analyzed data and collaboration on the decision makers in line of the trend does not add any values to the organizational objective.

 Now why one more...

 1.All the blog and forums describe the technical aspect of the BI tools not the business aspect in the perspective of the business objective..
 2.The forum are very large and very difficult to browse through and very difficult to get to a single conclusion for a specific topic.
3.More over the forums discuss on the technical specs and very specific to the Tool version and gets rapidly obsolete in the rapidly evolving IT/Business Landscape.
 4.The forums does not start at a problem from a organizational perspective and analyze approaches to solve them by a tool rather they start at a problem from a IT perspective which does not hold much value from business standpoint and as they do not problem specific they get obsolete along with the tool version itself....

Now what this place intended to become....
 I am starting this place with a open thinking to discuss and post of real problem and their solution with respect to BI and specifically SAP BO 4.0....

 I am planning to post a real life problem and their solution or approach with a keen eye on future evolution of IT and hardware landscape...
 Suggestion are most welcomed..