Even if nowadays BI Tools have been already widely adopted throughout the companies and are a widely accepted functionality by its users, it is still a fairly common observation that the reporting and analysis environments and their corresponding required infrastructure lack a common design methodology. The historical growth of the companies both in business and technologies plus the need of quick implementations of departamental solutions have caused and can cause a quite colorful mix of different environments and tools. We encourage all companies to consider to check if their current environment is prepared for the needs of the future, especially in times where the reaction capability and the capacity to adapt quickly the business processes is a necessary need in order to go ahead. An overall corporate BI strategy on the following points helps to achieve these goals.

Aspects of a Corporate BI Strategy

• Detection of information gaps.
• Definition of Value Propositions of BI for the business.
• Definition of corporate design rules for Corporate Information Management.
• Overall BI solution roadmaps and Data Integration Maps.
• Change Management and User Adaption.
• Moving from Reporting Solutions to Advanced Analysis Applications.