Based on feedback received from business users, incremental improvements Incremental and enhancements can be introduced. This may mean an additional data improvements source, a new calculation, or new reports. Monitoring Once value is being delivered, the solution remains being monitored. Ongoing ---- training, support, and sharing of knowledge is important and should not be Training overlooked. --- Expansion Sample Roadmap: IT-Managed Self-Service BI The roadmap for IT-Managed SSBI follows the same methodology as the Corporate BI roadmap, with the following distinctions: If the ability to allow a user to personalize their own copy is desired, an organizational content pack can be created by IT which permits a user to save and personalize secondary copies of reports and dashboards in their own personal workspace area. Report and dashboard creation is handled by business users rather than IT. Some semantic layer creation (such as a data model in Power BI Desktop) may also be handled directly by business users to the extent that only sanctioned data sources are utilized (this distinction discussed earlier in this whitepaper). Annotations in Azure Data Catalog can, and should, be made by business users who work with data sources directly. Bibliography 1 Garvin, Edmonson, Gino. “Is yours a Learning Organization?” Harvard Business Review, March 2008: 2 TWDI Research. “Pervasive Business Intelligence” The Data Warehousing Institute, July, 2008: 3 Gartner IT Glossary.
Incremental improvements Based on feedback received from business users, incremental improvements and enhancements can be introduced. This may mean an additional data source, a new calculation, or new reports. Monitoring ---- Training --- Expansion Once value is being delivered, the solution remains being monitored. Ongoing training, support, and sharing of knowledge is important and should not be overlooked. Sample Roadmap: IT-Managed Self-Service BI The roadmap for IT-Managed SSBI follows the same methodology as the Corporate BI roadmap, with the following distinctions: If the ability to allow a user to personalize their own copy is desired, an organizational content pack can be created by IT which permits a user to save and personalize secondary copies of reports and dashboards in their own personal workspace area. Report and dashboard creation is handled by business users rather than IT. Some semantic layer creation (such as a data model in Power BI Desktop) may also be handled directly by business users to the extent that only sanctioned data sources are utilized (this distinction discussed earlier in this whitepaper). Annotations in Azure Data Catalog can, and should, be made by business users who work with data sources directly. Bibliography 1 Garvin, Edmonson, Gino. “Is yours a Learning Organization?” Harvard Business Review, March 2008: 2 TWDI Research. “Pervasive Business Intelligence” The Data Warehousing Institute, July, 2008: 3 Gartner IT Glossary.
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