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Complementary Business Intelligence
The Pressing Issue
Many companies have business intelligence (BI) tools and infrastructure that serves their business’ needs; however, often certain functional departments, business units, or key business initiatives don’t yet have the BI tools that they need in place. Getting new reports written or analytical tools deployed quickly can be difficult for an overburdened IT organization. This common situation leads to frustrated, dissatisfied business users and an IT Department under siege, resulting in unaddressed business needs that can negatively impact the company. There is a new approach to BI to address those pressing business needs that leverages the existing BI infrastructure and can quickly deliver value to the business.
Complementary BI
Complementary BI leverages Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business intelligence solutions in a way that is complementary to in-house BI systems to address targeted business needs, leading to a win-win situation for business users and IT. Complementary BI can:
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Rapidly address high value, urgent business needs when the IT organization is consumed with other urgent activities, providing access to important data and analytical tools to business users.
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Leverage existing investments and infrastructure, driving increased value to the business by creative IT organizations.
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Leverage Software-as-a-Service solutions delivered in weeks rather than months of elapsed time and at a fraction of the cost of a traditional BI solution.
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Place minimal demands on IT staff and business users.
Contrasting Enterprise BI to Complementary BI
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Enterprise BI |
Complementary BI |
| Scope |
Entire company |
Targeted, functional areas |
| Focus |
Enterprise-wide across departments, data sources, and tools addressing many requirements |
Specific business or functional needs, that deliver high value, very quickly |
| Timeframe |
Typically 2-3 year program with initial deployment in 6 months |
6 to 10 week production go-live |
| Cost |
$500,000 to $ Multi-Million |
$100,000 to $500,000 |
| Data Strategy |
All data that may ever be needed in the data warehouse |
Business-relevant data based on specific business questions being addressed |
| Content / Tools |
Built by IT organization |
Best practices packaged into solution |
| IT Support |
Medium to significant |
Minimal |
| Return on Investment |
Often a year or two plus |
As short as a few months |
The Oco-Business Objects Complementary BI Solution
We provide the most comprehensive SaaS BI solution on the market that complements existing BI deployments. The solution allows companies to deploy in 6 to 10 weeks, incorporate best practice analytics, provide a comprehensive solution with data integration, data warehousing, and reporting & analytics tools for all types of users including executive dashboards, ad hoc analysis, multi-dimensional drillable reports, push reports, exception reports and alerts.
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Complementary BI:
The New Approach
to Business Intelligence
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