InformationWeek

Seeking the goal of end-to-end visibility by deploying business intelligence (BI) technology, businesses of all sizes face an important question: should the deployment itself be piecemeal, encompassing only selected portions of the organization, or cover data and applications across the entire company and the needs of every employee and partner? Conventional wisdom might say that the answer depends on the size of the business (or the size of the budget) and on the capabilities of the candidate BI solutions or suites. However, successful BI deployments that live up to ROI predictions do not always follow conventional wisdom. With proper project design and planning, businesses of all sizes can make the BI deployment decision that works best for them. As a result, companies can be confident in their ability to turn data into knowledge and insight for themselves, their customers, suppliers and other value-chain partners.

Join InformationWeek editors for a compelling hour of interactive panel discussion, debate and real-world research results focused on BI deployment strategies and their results.

Discussion topics include:

		Evaluating business goals, budget resources and BI solutions for piecemeal vs. enterprise-wide deployment.
		Back-end-to-Web delivery: The value of providing internal and external users with Web-delivered data and applications.
		Prioritizing and serving the needs of disparate users while controlling and sharing information within and outside the enterprise.
		How business technology professionals can collaborate most effectively for optimum BI implementation.