Enterprise BI Architecture Groups: The Key to Effective Agile Data Warehousing Programs

by Ralph Hughes

Agile data warehousing delivers powerful BI applications in the shortest time frame possible, yet coordinating multiple fast-moving BI teams demands more than simple project management. Organizations need an enterprise business intelligence architecture (EBIA) function to coordinate high-level requirements, designs, and technologies in order to avoid ruinously expensive mistakes and redundancies. An effective EBIA function must provide not only guidelines and reviews but also services and support to the agile teams in order to obtain their willing participation and compliance so that, out of all their loosely coupled efforts, an enterprise data warehouse will emerge.