Well, okay, my title
may be overselling BI administration a tiny bit.
In fact, as BI topics
go, administration may seem one of the least exciting. But managing
administration tasks well is the
first step toward enabling the pursuit of all of those other, more exciting BI topics.
Many administrative
tasks can be both labor-intensive and time-sensitive, meaning that you need to
throw resources at the tasks to ensure timely fulfillment of service level
agreements with your information consumers.
The result is a double
dose of undesirable: your resource costs go up and you don't have the resources
to tackle initiatives with much higher ROI. You're paying more and getting less.
You're undermining your ability to deliver progressive BI capabilities to your
stakeholders, and as an unintended consequence, you're robbing them of competitive
advantage.
Without a progressive
approach to your BI platform, your management of administration tasks may just be
increasing the technical debt in that platform, and the vicious cycle continues.
Sorry, did I say I was
trying to make BI administration exciting?
I meant terrifying. The truth is that
most BI administration teams would prefer to live in less interesting times.
On November 2, 2017, we hosted a webinar that explores ways to automate and simplify the many
time- and labor-intensive SAP BI administrative tasks faced by administrators
on an ongoing and recurring basis. We looked at tips and techniques for
reducing, preventing and managing the many chaotic activities, events and
factors that drain your administrative resources and interfere with your
ability to deliver timely BI content to your information consumers.
Administrative difficulties arise from many
causes, including the volume and complexity of content, growing user
expectations, the proliferation of data sources, greater security, governance
and compliance requirements, and the rise of user-driven content. None of these
trends will make BI administration easier, but you can use the APOS Administrator
solution to automate and simplify the most resource-intensive administrative tasks,
and to liberate resources for progressive BI initiatives.
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