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Other Directories, Comparisons, Research 2004 Integrated Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence & CPM (February) Round Table - Part 2

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Pat Sweet identifies key trends in the data warehousing and BI market helped by Jeff Herman of Blueplate Consulting, Rob Badila of Xansa, Pierre Yves Commanay at Sopra and independent consultant Keith Roberts.

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Jeff Herman: think creatively

“User training is also a major step forward to gaining the full benefit from a data warehouse project. Ideally the organisation should give the user a lot of autonomy in manipulating the data and producing the management information needed without further intervention from IT specialists. To achieve this, the users need to be involved in the project along with fully integrated training,” says Pierre Yves Commanay.

While training is frequently regarded as an overhead, our panel maintain it is essential if companies are to get the most out of a data warehouse and from BI tools or other data mining techniques. And, as Roberts points out, this goes well beyond the purely functional training which concentrates on ‘this button does this, and this button does that’.

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