Agile Business Intelligence — Definition, Maßnahmen und Herausforderungen

Abstract

Agile Business Intelligence -Definition, Maßnahmen und HerausforderungenAgile Business Intelligence hat sich als einer der Trends innerhalb der Business Intelligence (BI) etabliert. Eine hohe BI-Agilität lässt sich durch die Kombination verschiedener Maßnahmen aus den Bereichen Prinzipien, Vorgehensmodelle, Entwicklungsmethoden und Technologie verwirklichen. Diese sind je nach Unternehmensziel unternehmensindividuell auszuwählen und anzupassen. Offene Fragestellungen sind u.a., wie der Grad an BI-Agilität gemessen werden kann und welche Auswirkungen ein hoher Grad an BI-Agilität auf die Geschäftsprozesse und die IT-Architektur eines Unternehmens hat.

How to Make Business Intelligence Agile: The Agile BI Actions Catalog

“…The obvious approach to transfer and adapt wellknown agile actions from the SE context to BI exhibits major challenges: BI systems are different -that´s why the concept of dedicated Agile BI has been developed and why generic agile means not necessarily can be used one to one in the BI context [24]. Depending on the actions, a corresponding adaptation might become costly and complex, if not even impossible.…”

“…Hughes [24] examines Scrum and the underlying methods in the context of data warehouse development. According to Hughes Scrum can be used as a process model for data warehouse development and for the optimization of teams by specifying team roles which allow DW/BI project teams to better meet the challenges of data integration projects.…”

“…To overcome the curse of different understandings of agility and BI and to establish an understanding shared by academics and practitioners, the German Chapter of The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) developed and proposed a definition for 'Agile BI' [24,45]. It was a joint effort of 30 BI consultants, vendors, users, and researchers.…”

“…Due to the practitioner-oriented origin this definition has been complemented by a framework which distinguishes four action categories for Agile BI [24]:…”

“…It was a joint effort of 30 BI consultants, vendors, users, and researchers. Based on the definition of 'BI agility' as a characteristic of a BI system describing the ability "to react to unforeseen or volatile requirements regarding the functionality or the content of a BI solution in a given time frame" [45], 'Agile BI' has been defined as all actions undertaken by an organization to achieve or improve this characteristic [24].…”