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BI Requirements for IT: What Every IT Manager Should Know About Users’ Real Need for BI

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Marc Rueter, Tableau Software プロダクトマネージメントシニアディレクター

Business users and organizations need the ability to quickly analyze their data to identify issues, causes and opportunities for improvement. Once these analyses are identified, they need to be monitored and distributed often to others. With traditional business intelligence (BI), creating and maintaining effective and understandable analyses can take months to define and develop and require expensive resources to maintain.

In response, a new BI term has emerged: Operational Business Intelligence. It promises to empower everyone within an organization to make day-to-day decisions by using better analysis of sales and marketing trends, customer interactions, manufacturing plans, inventories and other areas of the business.

Seven major requirements businesses need to consider when evaluating this generation of BI:

  1. Plug and Play: Leverage existing data stores and infrastructure
  2. Help the business user see the answer faster
  3. Provide the ability to rapidly analyze and problem-solve – not just report
  4. Any Data, Any Time: Access data that IT doesn’t have
  5. Self Service: Enable the business user to create new reports and views without IT
  6. Collaboration: Deliver means for sharing and updating analyses and findings in real time
  7. Require no training to start and only minimal training of sophisticated business users

Operational BI promises to be a core part of the answer but only when it meets the 7 key requirements of business users. Tableau allows companies to leverage their data assets in unprecedented ways.

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Marc Rueter

Tableau Software プロダクトマネージメントシニアディレクター

Marc Rueter は、Tableau のプロダクトマネージメントシニアディレクターです。バージョン 1 の当時から、お客様、パートナー、従業員が Tableau で素晴らしい成果を挙げられるように支援してきました。Marc の考案した独創的な問題解決策と手の込んだ新工夫の多くが、その後リリースされた製品で簡単な右クリックオプションとして提供されるに至りました。自身の Tableau ジェダイのスキルを磨き続けながら、現在、分析環境に対する Tableau の戦略的方向性の策定に寄与しています。Tableau のエキスパートであると同時に BI 分野で長い経歴を持ち、MBA と機械工学の学位も取得しています。