Business Intelligence Competency Centers

Benefits and Value

The world leader in business intelligence, IBM offers superior guidance to optimize your use of BI. An IBM Cognos business intelligence competency center (BICC) is essential to the strategic deployment of BI because it helps you:

• Make the best of your BI – A BICC maximizes the efficiency, use, and quality of your BI across all lines of business.
• Simplify delivery – The BICC promotes and provides delivery enablement through a consistent set of BI skills, standards, and proven practices.
• Guarantee recurring success – Enable repeatable successful BI deployments through the development and focus of people, technology, and process – in ways that make sense to an entire organization or division, rather than just a single project.
• Increase value and lower cost – BI deployments through a BICC have higher success and deliver more value, at less cost and less risk, in less time.
• Drive end user adoption – Increased end user adoption ensures the success of your BI roll out.
• Eliminate the gap between business and IT – Instead of working as separate groups, business and IT users work together to combine and promote expertise.
• Enforce the BI standard – Through registration and guidance, you can enforce a BI standard and align technology with your strategic goals.
• Educate key stakeholders – The BICC serves to educate key stakeholders about the advantages of employing BI.

With an IBM Cognos BICC, you can facilitate predictable, repeatable, consistent, and dependable deployment and use of BI throughout your entire organization.

More: Learn how to implement your own BICC with the IBM Cognos Innovation Center

Additional Resources:

Driving BI Across the Enterprise - Winning Conditions through Standardization & BICC

White Paper

Clearly outlines the importance of standardizing on a single BI platform, the roll that a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) plays in making the right decisions toward that goal, the common reasons why BICCs fail, and best practices to use when formalizing one.

Building a Business Intelligence Competency Center: Establishing a Culture of Best Practices

White Paper

Learn how a BICC can strengthen your BI understanding, planning and communication and determine how to establish an initial plan to define your BICC charter.

Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI.

White Paper

Read about the factors to consider in standardizing your BI, the importance of TCO, and why IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only choice for BI standardization.

Eneco Energie: Powered by Information-Based Marketing and Decisions

Customer Testimonial

Read how Eneco Energie is achieving profitable revenue growth and linking strategic operational measurements to financial outcomes with IBM Cognos 8 BI.

Fiducia IT AG

Customer Testimonial

Find out how Fudicia IT used IBM Cognos software to create a new revenue stream, expand user self service to BI, communicate with the over 850 banks it serves, and gain more transparency throughout the organization.

The University of Wollongong

Podcast

Find out how this Australian university is using IBM Cognos software to get an accurate and comprehensive view of its operations and share consistent, timely information among departments and faculty.

Information, standardization and the case for Business Intelligence Competency Centers (BICC)

White Paper

Companies that take a well managed, pragmatic approach to technology are able to unlock the value of business information for competitive advantage. With this in mind, many organizations are creating working teams of IT and business users to improve the strategic value and roll-out of BI. These teams come together as a BI competency center (or performance management competency center). This document is the proceedings from the IBM Cognos Innovation Center roundtables for professionals at its annual user conference in May 2008.

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