BI, Mashups Are So Right for Each Other - By Ann All on IT Business Edge

BI is a tried and true practice: flawed, yet familiar.  BI relies on the fact that there is a strong IT department content with getting “business analysts the tools they need and get[ing] out of the way”, says BI analyst Seth Grimes.  This means that IT is expected to learn sales numbers and financial data (i.e. the language of the data analyst), along with their usual duties of handling hardware, network issues, security, backups and anything else having to do with computer support.

Mashups come in and compliment BI by fixing many of these problems and reliance on IT: “More business users will want to use BI if they realize what it has to offer and don’t have to run to IT for help integrating disparate data sources”, said Loraine Lawson, IT Business Edge.  Which is a huge relief, considering many lower-level IT jobs are offshored, meaning IT support is becoming scarcer.  John Crupi, of Jackbe, says that mashups have the “ability to reverse the usual 80/20 equation of IT doing 80 percent of the heavy data lifting by allowing users to do more for themselves.”

Mashups and BI are a perfect pair, a blend of old and new, where mashups actually further the effectiveness of BI.  

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To read a follow up blog by Ann All entitled “Effective BI Needs Homegrown Blend of Business IT” click HERE.