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Delivering on the Enterprise Business Intelligence Mandate - Success Factors for a Standardized Solution

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Overview This white paper builds on that mandate by providing the specific business and architectural success factors to consider when selecting one EBIS to serve as the enterprise standard. Too often organizations select a standard BI technology primarily based on their existing relationship with a vendor, or choose one of the departmental solutions currently in place. This paper provides a more objective and ultimately safer set of criteria.

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Publisher	Information Builders	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2004	Downloads	21
Format	White Papers
Topics	Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing, ROI - TCO, Strategic Planning

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