The Smartest Companies Don’t Stovepipe BI Projects

December 15, 2008

David Hatch, a Principal Analyst for the Aberdeen Group, says that best-in-breed retailers break down stovepipes between different areas of the organization by implementing enterprise-wide business intelligence guidelines. Hatch recently released a report — written with Senior Research Analyst Sahir Anand — entitled Increasing Retail Productivity: Enterprise-Wide Business Intelligence. The report says that IT and business departments have to sit down before projects being and have a conversation that, Hatch says, “actually is very difficult.”