LogiXML Business Intelligence Community - BI for Local Education Agencies

For BI solutions to provide value, your project goals must align themselves with an organization's strategy, maturity, and overall desire to become more efficient, productive and successful. However, with BI, it's equally important to predict change and to keep pace with your organization's strategy and maturity. This means solutions must be capable to meet these demands. For BI solutions to provide value, your project goals must align themselves with an organization’s strategy, maturity, and overall desire to become more efficient, productive and successful. However, with BI, it’s equally important to predict change and to keep pace with your organization’s strategy and maturity. This means solutions must be capable to meet these demands. These principals can generally be applied in almost any industry. In this article, we will focus our attention on Local Education Agencies (LEA) so they may best choose the right direction in applying BI technology.

How Should Local Education Agencies Choose Where to Begin a BI Project?

by Shane Quigley
Consultant, QC Technology Decisions
March 17, 2007

I am often curious as to why my clients choose the all-or-nothing approach to business intelligence (BI). I suppose this is because of the so-called end-to-end BI solutions being offered by the major vendors, or it could be the lure of the features offered only by flagship editions. The truth is, your organization likely has a good starting point already. Business Intelligence represents an evolution in understanding your business by interpreting the information collected. This makes the maturity of the solution dependent on your organization’s ability to correctly interpret and apply the information.

For BI solutions to provide value, your project goals must align themselves with an organization’s strategy, maturity, and overall desire to become more efficient, productive and successful. However, with BI, it’s equally important to predict change and to keep pace with your organization’s strategy and maturity. This means solutions must be capable to meet these demands. These principals can generally be applied in almost any industry. In this article, we will focus our attention on Local Education Agencies (LEA) so they may best choose the right direction in applying BI technology.

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