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by: Steve Williams, Nancy Williams See Larger Image List Price: $41.95 Our Price: $37.75 You Save: $4.20 (10%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $51.56 Third Party New Price: $33.07 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 658.47 EAN: 9780123724991 ISBN: 0123724996 Label: Morgan Kaufmann Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: December 19, 2006 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Sales Rank: 250286 Studio: Morgan Kaufmann Related Items: Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series) Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Business Intelligence (BI): It's not just a technology. It's not just a methodology. It's a powerful new management approach that - when done right - can deliver knowledge, efficiency, better decisions, and profit to almost any organization that uses it. When BI first came on the scene, it promised a lot but often failed to deliver. The missing element was the business-centric focus explained in The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence. Written by BI gurus Steve Williams and Nancy Williams, The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence shows step by step how you can achieve the promise of BI by connecting it to your organization's strategic goals, culture, and strengths while correcting your BI weaknesses. Features: * Provides a practical, process-oriented guide to achieve the full promise of BI. * Shows how world-class companies used BI to become leaders in their industries. * Helps senior business and IT executives understand the strategic impact of BI and how they can ensure a strong payoff from their BI investments. * Identifies the most common mistakes organizations make in implementing BI. * Includes a helpful glossary of BI terms. * Includes a BI readiness assessment for your organization. * Includes Web links and extensive references for more information. Steve Williams, President and founder of DecisionPath Consulting, is a leading advocate of business-driven BI design and development. His consulting firm is one of the largest in the specialized field of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Steve has over 23 years experience in information systems and systems engineering and has co-authored a training course on the BI Pathway Method. Nancy Williams is Vice President of DecisionPath Consulting. With over 21 years of business and technical experience, she provides technical and strategic leadership on business intelligence as well as hands-on guidance for client engagements. * A practical, process-oriented book that will help organizations realize the promise of BI * Written by Nancy and Steve Williams, veteran consultants and instructors with hands-on, 'in the trenches' experience in government and corporate business intelligence applications * Will help senior business and IT executives understand the strategic impact of BI and how they can help ensure a strong payoff on BI investments Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Make a difference to your bottom line with BI In the first two chapters the authors develop their core argument. BI projects are only successful when they have a positive impact on the bottom line of an organisation. BI so the central and simple theme of the authors, needs to give an organisation competitive advantage by either increasing its profits or decreasing its costs. They continue to say that BI must not be implemented in an unstructured manner, but has to be at the core of the business and its processes. Therefore, it needs ... Read More Rating: - Points from everywhere to everyone Let me start by saying that I liked this book. At the beginning, it appears like a copy of a specific book that has been a best-seller of this genre (unfortunately, I read that book; Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning). But little after going through the chapters - and passing my little disappointment - the reader finds that it is basically a summary of - maybe - all the major and must-read books of the genre in one place. Starting from strategic view and management (Business ... Read More Rating: - A valuable contribution to the different perspectives that surround business intelligence The world of business intelligence (BI) has been dominated by a technicians approach. There are architectures, data models, algorithms, and transformations. Now there is a book about the "soft side of business intelligence" from the perspective of the businessperson. The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence by Nancy Williams and Steve Williams covers a wide variety of topics, all relevant and informative. There are several highlights to the book: * A checklist of common mistakes ... Read More Rating: - Profit Impact of Business Intelligence Very celar and concise. This was of great value in my efforts to articulate the value of Business Intelligence within our organization. Rating: - Required Reading for the BI Professional Steve and Nancy Williams have made a significant contribution to the Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence literature with this comprehensive and well organized argument for looking at Business Intelligence as an investment in building sustainable organizational value in either a for-profit or non-profit environment. The book provides a clear understanding of the need for Business Intelligence along with the challenges that have plagued many efforts in the past. In it they put forth a number of ideas to address ... 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