Enterprise Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing: Program Management Essentials

Corporations and governmental agencies of all sizes are embracing a new generation of enterprise-scale business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW), and very often appoint a single senior-level individual to serve as the Enterprise BI/DW Program Manager. This book is the essential guide to the incremental and iterative build-out of a successful enterprise-scale BI/DW program comprised of multiple underlying projects, and what the Enterprise Program Manager must successfully accomplish to orchestrate the many moving parts in the quest for true enterprise-scale business intelligence and data warehousing.

Author Alan Simon has served as an enterprise business intelligence and data warehousing program management advisor to many of his clients, and spent an entire year with a single client as the adjunct consulting director for a $10 million enterprise data warehousing (EDW) initiative. He brings a wealth of knowledge about best practices, risk management, organizational culture alignment, and other Critical Success Factors (CSFs) to the discipline of enterprise-scale business intelligence and data warehousing.

• Chapter 1: The Challenge of Managing and Leading the Enterprise BI/DW Program
• Chapter 2: Building the Program’s BI/DW Project Portfolio
• Chapter 3: Identifying Shared Components and Capabilities
• Chapter 4: Program-Level Risk Management and Contingency Planning
• Chapter 5: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Operating Indicators (KOIs) for the Enterprise BI/DW Program
• Chapter 6: Conducting the Regular EBI/EDW Program Review
• Appendix: Research and Further Reading