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Using open source platforms for business intelligence : avoid pitfalls and maximize ROI /
Open Source BI solutions have many advantages over traditional proprietary software, from offering lower initial costs to more flexible support and integration options; but, until now, there has been no comprehensive guide to the complete offerings of the OS BI market. Writing for IT managers and bu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waltham, MA :
Morgan Kaufmann,
2012.
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| Colección: | Morgan Kaufmann Series on Business Intelligence.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION AND MARKET OVERVIEW
- ch. 1 Introducing BI
- Why is there a need for this book?
- What to expect in this book
- introduction to BI
- components of business intelligence
- ch. 2 OS overview
- Why understanding OS matters
- historical look at the broader OS market
- general appeal of OS
- OS market specifically
- Personal thoughts about OS expansion
- ch. 3 convergence of OS and BI
- OSBI gaining popularity
- expansion of OS offerings and positioning
- unique fit of OSBI and its effects on the broader market landscape
- Breakdown of OSBI technology
- Data warehousing
- Analytics
- Reporting and dashboards
- Data integration
- Embedded analytics
- General considerations for organizations
- ch. 4 look at the OSBI market
- Introduction
- OSBI market
- a general overview
- look at a transitioning market
- Traditional OS communities
- Adopting OSBI
- Why OS?
- OSBI transition and the expansion of OSBI into BI
- OSBI within the OS market
- Where OSBI solutions will/should be in the future
- Implications for businesses
- SECTION 2 DEEPER LOOK AT OSBI
- ch. 5 increasing popularity of OS
- look at BI drivers
- Price comparability
- Features and functions
- Licensing models and the issues surrounding them
- Maintenance
- Extensibility
- Open technology and integration
- BI in the cloud and SaaS offerings
- Collaboration and social networks
- Putting it all together
- ch. 6 differences between general OS and commercial offerings
- Understanding different OS models
- Internal development
- Community collaboration
- OS as a consulting tool
- Looking at community and commercial OS models
- OSBI models
- Community
- truly free
- Free software with separate purchases
- Commercial offerings
- services approach
- Looking at the community/commercial focus in the broader market
- drivers of commercial OS for BI
- bottom line
- ch. 7 Business benefits and challenges of OS for BI
- How business and IT approach BI
- relationship between business and IT
- Are benefits and challenges different or similar for business and IT worldviews?
- look at OSBI benefits
- Quick deployment times
- Internal development efforts can better align with business goals
- Customization options
- Subscriptions
- OS framework
- Business benefits
- a wrap-up
- look at OSBI challenges
- Development efforts
- Long-term costs
- Business and IT collaboration and project sponsorship
- Scalability
- What all of this means for business justification
- SECTION 3 BI STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS
- TYING IN OS ADOPTION WITH BI SUCCESS
- ch. 8 strategy behind BI adoption
- Adopting BI
- Goals of consolidating information across disparate data sources
- Better business visibility
- Mitigating risk
- Metrics/KPIs
- Acquisitions
- Competitive edge
- everybody else is doing it!
- Why these factors matter
- Why choose OS
- Already familiar with OS
- Want to get off the ground running (as McKnight says)
- Budgetary constraints
- Want to experiment with BI before committing
- Why go traditional
- Currently using proprietary software
- No Java expertise in-house
- Uncomfortable with the concept of OS
- Looking to expand
- Takeaways
- ch. 9 Implications for users
- practical guide to selecting OS
- Business factors of adoption
- Technical factors
- Considerations
- Price and maintenance breakdown
- Long-term costs
- IT development
- Business and technical requirements
- Checklist for software selection and implementation
- SECTION 4 JUSTIFYING OSBI PROJECTS
- ch. 10 Selling an OSBI project to the business
- closer look at ways of selling OSBI
- Community OSBI adoption
- Who benefits on the business side from using OSBI?
- What is involved in getting buy-in and in developing these offerings?
- Why should the business side of an organization consider community OS as an option?
- When is community OS BI appropriate?
- Commercial after community
- Who evaluates commercial OSBI?
- What benefits does switching from a free model to commercial OS provide to the business unit(s) involved?
- Why do organizations want to transition from one model to the other?
- When should organizations progress towards commercial OS?
- Commercial for the first time
- Who chooses commercial OS over traditional BI models?
- What are the benefits of OSBI for businesses not familiar with the model?
- How are the benefits of this model sold to the business?
- New to BI
- Who is new to BI?
- What are the options for companies starting out with BI for the first time?
- Why consider OS over traditional BI when new?
- BI expansion
- Who benefits from BI expansion through OS?
- What benefit does expansion provide?
- Why do organizations choose to expand with OS?
- Rip and replace
- Who decides to replace their BI offerings with something new?
- What do companies need to know about replacing solutions with OSBI offerings?
- Why does OSBI provide value that mature traditional BI platforms might not?
- What should a company's expectations be regarding a rip-and-replace model?
- Embedded applications
- Sorting out the different models and what it means to business units
- Why sell to the business
- Selling framework
- Why IT has to work with business units and why business units need to collaborate with one another
- bottom line for OSBI adoption in organizations
- ch. 11 Evaluating ROI and TCO
- Developing valid definitions of ROI and TCO
- Return on investment
- Total cost of ownership
- ROI and TCO similarities and differences
- Why ROI and TCO are important to software selection
- Developing an evaluation framework for your OSBI project
- Software costs
- Professional services or outside consulting
- Development efforts and time to deployment
- New hardware requirements
- More efficient processes
- time savings
- Maintenance costs
- Licensing fees
- Putting everything together
- What is time to value?
- look at long-term ROI and TCO
- ch. 12 Developing a cost-benefit analysis for OSBI: A practical look at ROI and TCO calculations
- General TCO/ROI models
- a look at what exists in the market
- Applying these models to ROI for OSBI
- Evaluating TCO for OSBI
- ROI and TCO calculations
- Looking at commercial versus community offerings
- SECTION 5 UNDERSTANDING THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND BUSINESS VALUE
- ch. 13 look at technical considerations
- How do technical considerations help with the evaluation process?
- Evaluating the current IT infrastructure
- Technical differences between community and commercial
- New to OSBI
- OSBI expansion
- Integration with non-OS sources
- Implications of trends
- Looking at data integration
- Disparate data sources
- Internal structured data
- Internal unstructured/semistructured data
- External structured data
- External unstructured/semistructured data
- Social network data
- Database technologies and what the differences mean in terms of end-user delivery
- Takeaways
- ch. 14 Understanding integration and data preparation
- Looking at the components of BI
- Why organizations should consider complementary offerings
- Limited capabilities
- Long-term development and internal maintenance
- Integration
- Expansion
- Evaluating the current BI environment
- brief look at Hadoop
- Integrating OSBI with traditional offerings
- reality of the market
- ch. 15 Working within an OS environment
- Introduction to developers
- word about Java
- Development within a community OS environment
- Development within a commercial OS environment
- Comparing traditional software offerings and developer roles
- Awareness of future commercial OSBI focus
- Free software access without source code
- Support available to developers
- Community involvement and vendor differences
- Collaboration with other developers
- Participating in vendor software development
- Upgrades, bug fixes, and the list goes on
- Looking ahead at developer requirements
- ch.
- 16 Required skillsets
- Technical skills
- Java Programming
- IT project management
- Network and database optimization
- Metrics and analytics development
- Data modeling
- Data integration
- Business skills
- Business requirements
- Business unit interrelationships
- Business sponsor
- Business rules expertise
- Navigating the political maze
- Tying it all together
- ch. 17 Technical benefits and challenges
- Expanding on the differences in technical versus business benefits and challenges
- look at the technical benefits of OSBI adoption
- Open standards and integration
- Hardware costs
- Customization potential
- Collaboration
- Community members
- What about commercial OS and free software trials?
- issue of support and proprietary limitations
- Weighing the benefits against the challenges
- Understanding technical challenges
- What types of challenges exist?
- Potential learning curves in relation to programming languages
- Addressing multiple developers within a single development environment
- Developing a strong data management structure
- Data integration and proprietary software
- Hardware and cost limitations
- Working with OS source code
- Transferring from traditional solutions to OS offerings
- real time to value
- Understanding the real benefits and challenges of software development.
- Note continued: SECTION 6 TAKEAWAYS/RECOMMENDATIONS
- ch. 18 Getting started: A checklist for OSBI readiness
- Business considerations
- Technical considerations
- Putting all the pieces together
- Important OS factors
- Can do with or without
- General conclusion.