The BI Lifecycle

The Business Intelligence Lifecycle follows parallel to the Data Maturity Lifecycle to provide a comprehensive maturation model on information intelligence.

This model provides a roadmap to use as a guidelines in the planning of a business intelligence program. A BI Program is a long term strategy, not a short term, one time project. As the business continues to change, and technology supporting analytics continues to improve, this lifecyle can reiterate into a complete new for of performance management.

Transforming Information Into Intelligence

By understanding how data becomes information, and how information can then be transformed into intelligence, presented in a manner to support real time decision making, helps to understand the evolution of a BI Program.

It also helps you understand how advanced your organization is in leveraging information.

There are four main phases in Data and BI Lifecycle

1. Collection - Infancy
2. Reporting - Adolescence
3. Analytics - Adulthood
4. Visualization - Maturity

Collection [Infancy]

Data creating and collection from:

• CRM - Customer Relationship Management
• Custom Application Development
• Other Enterprise Applications - ERP, HR

Stage 1 Data Requirements

• Transactional Databases [OLTP]
• Unstructured Data Files

Reporting [Adolescence]

Data Reporting And Export

• Parameter driven reporting
• Report distribution via Email and Web
• Basic data derivatization and summation

Stage 2 Data Requirements

• Transactional Databases
• Data Replication
• Data Libraries and Models

Analytics [Adulthood]

Data Analysis

• Ad Hoc Query and data analysis by end users
• Dimensional data analysis [OLAP]
• Data Transformation, Integration and Lineage

Stage 3 Data Requirements

• Dimensional Data Design
• Basic data warehouse, data mart of ODS
• Semantic Layer or Cubes

Visualization [Maturity]

Data Visualization

• Metric Dashboards & Alerting
• Scorecards [Strategies and Goals]
• Advanced Analysis & Data Mininig

Stage 4 Data Requirements

• Advanced Semantics
• Advanced Data Warehouse Design
• Metric Repository

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