Your 2008 Data Integration Plans, Part 2: Replacing your data shadow systems or spreadmarts

One of the dirtiest unspoken secrets in business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) is that most business people, despite the sizable investment in BI, PM and data warehousing, are not getting the information they need to make decisions. (See this Accenture study.)

And the reason for that, yet another unspoken truth, is that most business people are performing their analysis via data shadow systems or spreadmarts.

A quick recap: a data shadow system is an application built by the business. It gathers data from many sources, and business people often augment that data manually, using Microsoft Office for reporting and analysis. Ask business people how they really get their information and their answer is almost sure to include a data shadow system.

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[Beautiful Minds.]

Thts true.. Right information in the right time matters.. and in most cases.. thy are not getting the same..