IT Strategy資訊科技策略

The cost for implementing the BI tools is rising and therefore the CIO and other business managers are becoming aware of new licensing and implementation costs. There are several options. The BI tools are rolled up into the Enterprise applications. Some vendors provide stand alone BI tools. Then there is Open Source BI application. Both Traditional and Open Source Vendors now provide SaaS delivery model. How can anyone compare open-source options versus Traditional BI? How do you calculate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the BI application? 成本，為實施BI工具正在上升，因此， CIO和其他業務經理們逐漸意識到新的發牌和實施成本，有幾種選擇。 BI工具都是卷起來到企業應用，有的廠商提供單獨的BI工具再有是一個開放源碼的商業智能應用。傳統和開放源代碼廠商現在提供張Saas交付模式，怎麼能比較開放源代碼選項銀兩傳統的BI嗎？你怎麼計算的總擁有成本（ TCO ） ，為商業智能應用？ Information Builders 信息建設者 has a good white paper on this very subject (Click 已經有了一個好的白皮書，就這一主題（點擊 here 這裡 to read the white paper). There are several components for the BI application that need to be taken into account while calculating the TCO. 閱讀白皮書） ，有幾個組成部分，為商業智能應用需要加以考慮，同時計算總體擁有成本。

I am happy to see Software Functionality in Information Builders’ white paper diagram (as shown above). Many organizations will look into Hardware, Software, User Training, Support and Maintenance and Time to implement when comparing BI applications. Some organizations also compare Software Architecture Scalability and Data Architecture to calculate TCO. But, many organizations do not do a good job of analyzing and assessing Software Functionality. They mainly go through the list of all the functionality that exists for that application. If the list of Software Functionality for BI tool A is greater than B, then the conventional thinking is that Software A is better. But what if that functionality is not relevant to that firm? In my view, the first thing the firm needs to do before analyzing the TCO of the BI tools (or any other Enterprise Application) is to understand WHY they want to use Business Intelligence Application after all. What data have they been collecting and are willing to collect (it depends of how easy it is to collect good quality data)? The firm need to have a clear understanding of HOW BI application is going to enable their Business Strategy. Once the organization begins to do the detailed analysis of what data they have and need (in the context of their Business Strategy), only then the functionality of that software application begins to become relevant. If a firm implements the functionality of BI application that in no way provides any competitive edge, it’sa total waste of valuable resource. What ‘intelligence’ the organization will gain looking at some irrelevant data? 我很高興地看到，軟件功能，在信息建設者'白皮書圖（如上所示） ，許多組織將考慮到硬件，軟件，用戶培訓，技術支持和維護和時間來執行比較時，畢的申請，有的組織還比較軟件架構可擴充性和數據結構，以計算總體擁有成本。但是，許多組織並沒有做好自己的分析和評估軟件功能，他們主要是通過列出所有的功能存在，為該項申請，如果名單上的軟件功能，為雙向工具A是更大的比 B ，那麼，傳統的想法是，軟件是好是一回事，但如果這些功能是不相關的這一堅定？在我看來，第一件事就是公司需要做的，才分析控煙辦公室的BI工具（或任何其他企業應用系統）是理解他們為什麼要使用商務智能應用，畢竟什麼數據，他們一直在收集，並願意以收集（這取決於它是如何的方便，以收集高質量的數據） ？堅定需要有一個清晰的了解如何應用畢去，使他們的經營策略，而一旦組織開始做詳細的分析，有什麼數據，他們需要（在它們的商業策略） ，只有這樣的功能，軟件應用開始成為有關，如果公司實施的功能，商業智能應用，在沒有辦法提供任何競爭優勢，這是白白浪費了寶貴的資源是什麼'情報' ，該組織將增益看一些不相干的數據嗎？

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Tags:標籤： Business Intelligence商務智能 , ， BI畢 , ， TCO控煙辦公室 , ， Total Cost of Ownership總擁有成本 , ， SaaS張Saas , ， Open Source開放源碼

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