NOVEMBER 20179The role of new BI Organization is to evolve BI Practices and implementations around what's happening around the world and bring the latest and greatest of the tools and technologiesvanced analytics people to interface with Busi-ness to derive the modern day insightsThe above-mentioned role should roll up to Chief Architect office. They should have liberty to experiment the trends, attending the webi-nars, seminars, summits etc. to carve out more space for the modern day BI. In order to be a successful team, it should contain the right bal-ance of Domain Skills, IT Skills and Data Ex-ploitation skill As the whole BI & Analytics world is go-ing under transformation in waves, BI world is moving from Wave 1 (Semantic Layer Based Platform) to Wave 2 (Visual Based Data Discovery) to wave 3 (Smart Data Discovery Platform), and the tools & tech-nologies should also support in making up such transformation. Similar sort of transformation can be found in the way business analyst do their analyses, what it means in terms of insight, Users, Skills, Organization, Interaction and collaboration and more im-portantly data. The next and the third wave of transformation will change the way we do, the way we operate, the way we govern, the way we collaborate etc. and hence there is a need for the BI & Analytics organization to evolve as well. That will give birth to a new BI Organization within the organization. We would need to modernize the BI initiatives due to the fol-lowing reasons· Align analytics investment with strategic business objectives· Facilitate self-service ana-lytics capability throughout the organization· Create new business oppor-tunities through innovative ana-lytics technology· Support more complex busi-ness decision through more so-phisticated analyticsThere are five analytics blocks that should be considered for Tra-ditional BI, Self Service Analyt-ics, Self Service Data preparation & Digital Analytics etc. They play a different role within each spectrum and contain the points to ponder under the transforma-tion. · Roles and Organization· Analytics Capability· Data Sources· Process and Governance· Business OutcomeFew guidelines for preparing the Organization for Modern BI & Analytics· Multiple Analytics blocks will be integrated to form a holis-tic platform.· Realize Business outcome· Evolve process and Gover-nance with the architecture· Add the right roles and up-date the organizationFew recommendations for preparing the Organization for Modern BI & Analytics· Adopt the right moderniza-tion model, according to the orga-nization need and current status· Identify the target business outcomes, and define the support-ing analytic blocks that need to be deployed· Build upon existing capabil-ities, skills and process. Innovate and disrupt when possible· Deliver a holistic and cohe-sive architecture· Establish the right process-es, organization, and leadership to deliver the modernization ini-tiatives. Vivek Mohan
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