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Reporting, planning and Analysis for the Masses
I spent many years at AT&T watching organizations, divisions and departments build their own Excel-based reporting and planning systems. These systems took on a life of their own; with production MIS systems reduced to the role of data source for these business-maintained applications. Business users did this for a number of reasons:
Introducing Polaris for Business Analytics
As I have discussed a number of times in various blog entries, delivering business analytics that truly enable outcomes is multi-faceted.