BI Valuenomics
BI Business Value - Delivered
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Who stole my BI Business expectations?
“A smart talker can steal with a briefcase more than a thousand men with guns’ Don Henley
As of April 2010, statistically the odds are:-
· 92% of SAP ERP customers will choose SAP BW as their DW application, Oracle customer the choice will be Oracle BI.
· 45% that BI implementation will fail to deliver expected business value, or 45% of your reports are unusable by business at time of go live. This is independent of platform,
· 90% of BI initiatives will need to spend a minimum 4 times[1] more to fix unmet business expectations due to faulty deliverables. Almost all BI initiatives, where deliverables did not meet expectations, are extended to meet undelivered expectations. These tend to be unplanned projects.
· 98% that the BI project will be declared a success during week one of go-live, with only 55% of them remaining successful after eight to ten weeks.
We have taken the failure rate of 45% of BI initiatives as a crime scene investigation. So let us build the crime scene and you decide whether this is worth investigating. Let us begin our story by defining the crime.
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Crime identification
According to the Gartner report of June 2009 total market expenditure on BI for 2008 was $8.8 billion globally.
Out of this only 55% of BI projects met business expectations (Gartner, AMR, ERP’s, Forrester
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“This book hits the bull’s-eye on the main challenge facing corporate BI today, ...from being technology centric to business driven with a BI strategy thought process. Hari drives this point home with great insight, industry highlights and thought processes for consideration that make this book a great read for all BI professionals”
Richard Dunning former BI Chair, ASUG*; SITACORP BI Practice Director (USA)
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“Gartner identified the enigma to BI Success. Hari provides a clear roadmap to attain it”
Jasvir Gill —ex CEO of Virsa (GRC), current CEO of Alert Enterprises (
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“Perfectly timed, surgically focused insights . Just when we were lost in our BI investments Hari shows us the Business path out of the confusion”
Uli Neubert—CEO, ICM
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“Every C level executive focused on a positive ROI from BI needs to read this book, it will ensure success. Hari has truly created the manual for success that keeps focus on the principles of business driven BI”
Matt Murray Managing Director & Founder , EdgeRock Inc (
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"This book pulls us out of our current engineering college where we learn everything about why a time machine cannot be built, but nothing about how to build a simple bridge. All our business users need is to cross the raging
About the Author
Hari is an ex SAP America Business Value realization expert, ex Anderson Consulting SAP Platinum level Functional lead with over 15 years of SAP, 4 years of Oracle DW and 11 years of SAP BI experience. Hari currently works at HCL-Axon as a BI Solution Manager.
Hari has over 25,000 hours of BI experience, i.e. a 2.5 ‘outliner’ score with 10,000 hrs taken as 1. He has completed over 25 BW implementations, 2 BW Accelerator Implementations and over 5 BOBJ projects. Hari has published various white papers in SDN and InsideSAP in
His focus is Business Value Attainment with the Information Consumer as the center of his BI universe. This book will be followed by anotyher book planned for Dec. 2010 on SAP BI only. Hari is based out of
He welcomes all comments from readers and BI Information consumers