With the more technical aspects of IT taken over by the CTO, the role of the CIO has changed to focus only on the sourcing, provisioning and delivery of information as a strategic organizational resource. The BI competency is the primary group that he uses to implement this. However there are some technologies such as mobile BI and cloud computing that the CIO must be very aware of, as they can play a key role in the execution of his strategic initiatives. The role of the CIO has been a contentious topic during the last few years. Due to the continual changes in the IT industry, the responsibilities...

The success of every decision is closely related to the quality of the information that was used to make that decision. For this reason, Data Quality is very closely related to Business Intelligence. Data quality checks and active data quality controls should be embedded into the loading and reporting processes. This can ensure the quality of the information provided to decision makers, as well as present them with statistics on the data quality aspects. For any executive, making the right decision is crucial in any business environment, especially as the market has become much more dynamic and...

An on-going challenge of data warehousing is the long turnaround time between when a business event occurs and when the fact representing it is ready for consumption in the data warehouse. Delayed delivery makes it difficult to make timely decisions. Long data latencies also impede the organisation’s ability to quickly assess the implementation of decisions. Consequently near-time data warehouse synchronization has become a critical component of strategic and operational decision-making. One of the key requirements for highly synchronised information delivery is that it must provide consistent,...